Bangladesh Supreme Court on Sunday upheld the death sentence of banned Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami’s former leader and two of his accomplices for attacking Britain’s then envoy in 2004, paving the way for their execution.
HuJI leader Mufti Hannan lost the legal battle to save himself from the charges of an attempt on life of the former UK envoy to Bangladesh.
Hannan and two of his associates attacked a shrine in 2004 that left three people dead and injured Anwar Chowdhury, the British high commissioner at the time.
“There now remains no barrier in executing (HuJI chief) Mufti Abdul Hannan and the two other operatives of the outfit,” a spokesman of attorney general’s office said as the Supreme Court’s
Appellate Division rejected a plea by the convicts seeking review of the apex court decision.