Grenade Attack on Anwar Choudhury
HC publishes full verdict
'No bar to execution of death sentences to Mufti Hannan, 2 others if appeal not filed'
The High Court has published the full verdict in the case over grenade attack on former British high commissioner Anwar Choudhury, upholding the death sentence to three militants including Huji chief Mufti Abdul Hannan.
If the convicts do not appeal there is no bar to their execution now, said deputy attorney general Sheikh AKM Moniruzzaman Kabir.
The High Court bench comprising Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Amir Hossain on February 11 gave the verdict. The 167-page full verdict signed by the two judges was published yesterday.
The two other sentenced to death are Huji's Sylhet region organisers Sharif Shahedul Alam Bipul and Delwar Hossain Ripon.
On May 21, 2004, the then British High Commissioner Anwar Choudhury came under the grenade attack while coming out of the mazar of Hazrat Shah Jalal (RA) after offering Juma prayers there in Sylhet. Three persons were killed and around 70 persons including Anwar Choudhury were injured in the attack.
Speedy trial tribunal, Sylhet on December 23, 2008, sentenced the three to death by hanging and two others to life imprisonment.