Synchronised Bomb Attacks
HC upholds 7 JMB men's life term imprisonment
The High Court yesterday upheld a Thakurgaon court's verdict that sentenced seven activists of banned Islamist militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to life term imprisonment in a bomb blast case.
The case was filed by Thakurgaon police on August 17, 2005 after JMB simultaneously blasted at least 459 time bombs in 63 districts that day, killing two people.
Some of the bombs exploded in four spots of Thakurgaon court premises, leaving a few people injured, HC sources said.
The convicts are Abdul Latif, son of Nazrul Islam, Abdur Razzak, son of Mujibar Rahman, and Abdur Razzak, son of Asir Uddin of Thakurgaon sadar upazila; Hefzur Rahman, son of Hazrat Ali of Baliadangi upazila in Thakurgaon; Rashidul Islam, son of Abdun Nur of Debiganj, and Shafiqul Islam, son of A Samad of sadar upazila in Panchagarh; and Rezowan.
Rashidul, Shafiqul and Rezowan were on the run and the remaining in custody. All of them were JMB's Thakurgaon and Panchgarh unit members, said Assistant Attorney General Md Jasim Uddin.
Life term imprisonment meant that the convicts had to spend 30 years behind bars, he added.
The Additional District and Sessions Judge's Court in Thakurgaon had passed the sentence on August 31, 2006 and fined each convict Tk 10,000, in default of which they had to suffer another year in jail.
Yesterday, the HC bench of Justice Khondker Musa Khaled and Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder delivered the verdict after dismissing four separate appeals filed by Latif, Razzaq, Hefzur and Razzaq against the Thakurgaon court's verdict.
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