Bangladesh: 14 Terrorists Sentenced To Death
Bangladesh: 14 terrorists sentenced to death for plotting to assassinate Sheikh Hasina. A Bangladesh court has sentenced 14 terrorists to death for plotting to assassinate Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
All the convicts are members of the banned Harkat-ul-Jihad Bangladesh (HuJI-B). Let us tell you that on July 21, 2000, HuJI-B terrorists planted a 76 kg bomb near the ground in Kotlipada of south-west Gopalganj.
Sheikh Hasina was to address an election rally here. Thankfully, this was detected by the security agencies even before the prime minister’s helicopter landed.
Judge Abu Zafar Mohammad Qamaruzzaman of the Rapid Hearing Tribunal I of Dhaka delivered the ruling on Tuesday. Nine of the fourteen convicts were present in court during the verdict.
The remaining five convicts are absconding and they were tried in absentia and the government-appointed lawyers defended them as per law.
The judge said that the firing squad would apply the judgment to set precedent unless it is barred by law.
Judge Kamaruzzamman said that all these convicts can be hanged if they get the approval of the Supreme Court bench after compulsory review of the death penalty under Bangladesh law.
The judge has said that the five convicts who are absconding should be hanged after being caught. Hugh-B’s Surveyorvamufti Abdul Hannan was the mastermind of the conspiracy and was also charged, but his name was dropped during the hearing of the case.
The bomb was planted in an open field in the year 2000.
Let us tell you that in the year 2000, in an open field of Hushina’s Pushtaini village in Gopalganj, south-west of Bangladesh, they were conspired to kill him using a super-powerful explosive device.
PM Sheikh Hasina was to address a public meeting there. However, the security officials had detected the bomb before the public meeting and saved it from a major tragic accident at the PM’s public meeting.
Mastermind Mufti Hannan has been hanged.
It was then revealed after an investigation that Mufti Hannan, the leader of the Harkatul Jihad-e-Islami Bangladesh (HuJI), was the mastermind of the plot.
Hannan was hanged in early 2017 in connection with an attempt to assassinate the then British High Commissioner of Bangladeshi origin.
At the same time, 25 suspects were convicted in the case of privilege law. Of these, nine were sentenced to 20–20 years imprisonment and fined 20–20 thousand taka. At the same time, four people were acquitted in this case.
