2005 Bomb Blasts in Sylhet: JMB leader gets life-term imprisonment

A court in Sylhet yesterday sentenced a man to life term imprisonment in a case filed over a series of bomb blasts in the city's Kadamtali Bus Terminal on August 17, 2005.

Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Mominunnessa delivered the verdict in presence of the convict, Abdul Aziz alias Hanif, a leader of the banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), according to Advocate Jubayer Bakth, assistant public prosecutor of the court.

On August 17 in 2005, as part of the countrywide series bomb blasts by JMB, bombs went off in 13 places of Sylhet district including the bus terminal, Sylhet court and other important places.

In the blasts, no one died in Sylhet but 15 people were injured, including a judge of a speedy trial tribunal.

The next day, 13 cases were filed by police.

In the case of Kadamtali Central Bus Terminal blast, Abdul Aziz was the lone accused.