Bangladeshi Court Sentenced Four Islamic Terrorists To Death

Bangladeshi court sentenced four Islamic terrorists to death in the case of the murder of a Dhaka University professor.

A Bangladesh court on Wednesday sentenced four terrorists of a banned Islamist group to death. Two terrorists are still absconding in this case.

The court ordered the police to take steps to trace the fugitives and give them capital punishment. The convicted terrorists were members of the banned Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen (JMB).

Bangladeshi court sentenced: Death penalty to terrorists.

Additional Sessions Judge Mohamed Al Mamun sentenced the terrorists to death for the 18 years ago murder of Dhaka University literature professor and author Humayun Azad.

Humayun Azad, a professor of Bengali literature, was stabbed to death on the Dhaka University campus on his way home from a book fair in February 2004.

Police said they were attacked by three youths and also detonated two bombs to escape.

Humayun Azad was initially treated at the Joint Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka, where his condition improved. He later went to Germany for further treatment but died a few days later.

No improvement even after prolonged treatment.

Azad’s brother had initially filed a case with the police alleging that unidentified assailants tried to kill him, but after his death, the case turned into a murder case.

The German doctor’s report and autopsy confirmed that it was the attack that led to his death.

The German doctor’s report and autopsy confirmed that the attack on him in Dhaka was indeed the cause of his death.

Used to criticize the fundamentalists by writing.

Significantly, Azad used to criticize the fundamentalists with his writings. He had drawn enmity between the JMB and other extremists and extremists for his writings challenging radical ideas.

A few days before the attack, he wrote a book critical of the role of some Pakistanis before Bangladesh’s independence in 1971.