HC upholds 2 JMB men's death sentence

Staff Correspondent
The High Court yesterday upheld the death sentence of two leaders of banned Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in a murder case. Convicts Salauddin alias Salehin of Narayanganj and Rafiq Hassan alias Hafez Mahmud of Jamalpur are now in Dhaka Central Jail's condemned cell, Deputy Attorney General Md Selim told The Daily Star. The court delivered the verdict rejecting their appeals against the judgement of Speedy Trial Tribunal-1, Dhaka in 2006 which convicted and sentenced them to death for killing Abdul Gani alias Joseph Gani Gomez Mandal, a medicine businessman, at Duyanipara of Jamalpur in Sept, 2004.