Family members meet Mufti Hannan

Staff Correspondent, Gazipur: Family members met the death-row convict Mufti Abdul Hannan at the Kashimpur high security jail in Gazipur on Wednesday morning.

Four members of his family entered the jail around 6:30am, confirmed Md Mizanur Rahman, senior jail super of the prison.

Earlier, they started for Kashimpur jail on Tuesday night after the local administration asked them to meet Mufti Hannan.

The family members are known as Hannan's wife Zakia Parvin Ruma, his elder brother Ali Uzzaman Munshi, elder daughter Nishi Khanam and younger daughter Nazrin Khanam, according to jail authority.

Meanwhile the jail authorities sent messages to the families of Mufti Hannan and his associate Sharif Shahedul Bipul to meet them after president rejected their clemency plea.

In 2004, former UK high commissioner Anwar Choudhury along with around 70 others was hurt and three were killed in the attack at the shrine of Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) in Sylhet.

The Bangladesh-born envoy, barely 18 days into his new assignment, suffered minor leg injuries in the grenade attack after Juma prayers.

On December 23, 2008, the Sylhet Divisional Speedy Trial Tribunal sentenced Mufti Hannan, Bipul and Ripon to death, and Ovi and Abu Zandal to life imprisonment for the grenade attack and the killings.


risingbd/Gazipur/April 12, 2017/Hasmot Ali/A K Azad