Serial Blasts on Aug 17, 2005

6 JMB men get life in Sherpur

3 September 2009, 17:00 PM

Our Correspondent, Tangail

A Sherpur court yesterday sentenced six cadres of outlawed Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to life imprisonment for their involvement in serial blasts in the district town on August 17, 2005. Judge Mohammad Murshid Alam of the Special Tribunal delivered the verdict. The convicts are JMB's Dhaka divisional commander Salahuddin alias Salehin (gets life and death penalty in two other cases), JMB's Sherpur district commander Mujahidul Islam Sumon, and JMB cadres Rafiqul Islam, Abdul Mannan alias Paru Miah, Nazmul Islam alias Roman and Mostafizur Rahman alias Linkon. Of them, Salehin, Mujahidul Islam Sumon and Nazmul Islam were in the dock while Rafiqul Islam, Abdul Mannan and Mostafizur Rahman alias Linkon tried in absentia. The court acquitted another accused, Humayun Kabir Shawkat, as charges brought against him were not proved. Six bombs went off on the premises of the deputy commissioner's office, District Judge's Court, bus terminal and two other places in the town on August 17, 2005. Police also recovered an unexploded bomb from one of the five spots. Sub-Inspector Mokhlesur Rahman of Sherpur Sadar Police Station filed a case against nine JMB men, including JMB kingpins Shaikh Abdur Rahman and Siddikul Islam alias Bangla Bhai, on the day. DB police investigated the case and submitted a charge sheet to a first class magistrate's court Sherpur on November 17 the same year. Later, the names of Abdur Rahman and Bangla Bhai were dropped from the charge sheet as both were executed in Jhalakathi Judges' murder case in 2007.