The Appellate Division verdict that rejected Harkat ul-Jihad al-Islami Bangladesh (HujiB) leader Mufti Hannan's review petition against his death penalty has not reached the High Security unit of Kashimpur Jail until Monday afternoon.
As he is a condemned convict in a sensitive case, Mufti Hannan has been kept at the High Security unit of the jail.
A three-member Appellate Division bench led by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha on Sunday dismissed the review petition filed by three death convicts including Mufti Abdul Hannan for attempted murder of former British envoy Anwar Choudhury at Hazrat Shahjalal shrine in 2004.
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The Jail's High Security unit Super Mizanur Rahman told reporters around 4pm that they had not received any paper related to the Supreme Court verdict that rejected Hannan's review petition.
The verdict needs to be read out to the condemned convict to make sure if he is going file a mercy petition to the President.
If the condemned convict opts not to go for the mercy petition, the death sentenced can be executed anytime.
Militants tried to assassinate Anwar, the then UK high commissioner, at the shrine of Hazrat Shahjalal in Sylhet on May 21, 2004, but their efforts were in vain. However, three people were killed in the attack which left over 70 others injured.
In December 2008, a Sylhet court sentenced Mufti Hannan and two other HujiB members to death, and two others to life imprisonment for the attack. The High Court upheld the sentence in February last year.
Later in the same month, the death row convicts appealed to the Appellate Division but to no avail, as the death penalty was upheld there as well.
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The Appellate Division’s 65-page full verdict was published on January 17.
The condemned convicts filed a review petition against the full verdict on February 23.
Hannan was also sentenced to death for the 2001 Ramna Batamul bombing where ten people were killed.
Thursday, June 04, 2026
