HC starts hearing Gazipur bomb attack appeal

The High Court today started hearing on death reference and appeals in a case over suicide bomb attack inside Gazipur Bar Association office in 2005 that killed nine people.

The High Court bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice JBM Hassan began the hearing with the case statements read out by of Deputy Attorney General Sheikh AKM Moniruzzaman Kabir.

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On June 20, 2013, a Dhaka court sentenced 10 members of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to death for carrying out the suicide attack.

The death reference of the case reached to the HC from the trial court in seven days after the latter awarded death penalty to the convicts. The convicts in the same year filed 10 separate appeals with the HC against their penalties.

The convicts are Enayet Ullah alias Walid, Arifur Rahman, Moshidul Islam alias Masud, Saidur Munshi, Abdullah Al Sohaien, Nizam Uddin Reza, Taibur Rahman alias Hassan, Ashraful Islam, Md Shafiullah alias Tarek and Adnan Sami alias Jahangir.

All the convicts are in jail.