Two ambulances at Kashimpur jail

Staff Correspondent, Gazipur: Two ambulances have entered into Kashimpur High Security Central Jail in Gazipur.

The ambulances were seen to enter into the jail at 6:35pm on Wednesday.

Death row convict Mufti Abdul Hannan, chief of a faction of banned militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad Bangladesh (Huji) and his associate Sharif Shahedul Bipul are in the Kashimpur High Security Central Jail. All legal stages to execute Hannan have been completed. All preparations to execute him are also at the final stage.

A chief hangman named Raju and his two associates have been kept ready to execute Hannan.

Gazipur deputy commissioner, police super and district civil surgeon are expected to arrive at the jail within some time, according to a police source.

Earlier in the morning, family members met the death-row convict Mufti Abdul Hannan at the Kashimpur jail.

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.

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.

Later, the Supreme Court upheld the death penalties for the Huji militants, including Mufti Hannan, for carrying out the grenade attack.

After the three condemned militants filed mercy petitions, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Sunday told reporters that the president rejected them.

risingbd/GAZIPUR/Apr 12, 2017/Hasmot Ali/Amirul