Mufti Hannan’s execution order reaches jail

Staff Correspondent: The execution order for convicted militant Mufti Hannan reached the jail authorities in a case filed for the 2004 grenade attack on the UK envoy in Bangladesh, Anwar Choudhury.

The order reached at the Kashimpur High Security jail on Monday.

Mizanur Rahman, senior jail superintendent of Kashimpur High Security said that they have got the copy.

Earlier, the President rejected their mercy petitions leaving no further legal bar in executing the death sentences of Harkat-ul-Jihad (Huji) chief Mufti Abdul Hannan and two others.

The Appellate Division on March 19 upheld the death sentence of Mufti Hannan, Delwar Alias Ripon and Sharif Shahedul Alam alias Bipul after hearing the review petitions filed by the three death-row convicts.


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