SC upholds death for JMB man in Jhalakati judges killing case

The Supreme Court today cleared the way for executing Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) leader Asadul Islam alias Arif for killing two judges of Jhalakati in 2005.

A five-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by SK Sinha dismissed a petition filed by Asadul seeking review of its earlier judgement that upheld his death penalty.

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Senior assistant judges -- Jagannath Pandey and Sohel Ahmed -- were killed in a suicide bomb attack at Purba Chadkati in Jhalakathi town on November 14, 2005 in the wake of a series of violent militant attacks across the country.

The Appellate Division had upheld death penalty of 7 JMB leaders including JMB chief Abdur Rahman, his second-in-command Siddiqul Islam alias Bangla Bhai, Asadul and four other militants in the sensational Jhalakathi judges' killing case.

Death sentence of the militants except Asadul were executed on March 29, 2007.

Asadul, who was absconding was arrested on July 10 in 2007, filed the petition with the SC this year seeking review of its judgement.