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Gazipur blast: 6 JMB men’s death upheld

The High Court has upheld death penalty for six JMB men among ten in a case filed over a bomb attack in Gazipur Bar Association office in 2005 that killed nine people.The court also commuted death sentence of two accused militants to life imprisonment while acquitted two others.The bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice JBM Hassan announced the verdict on Thursday.The death convicts are Enayet Ullah alias Walid, Arifur Rahman, Saidur Munshi, Abdullah Al Sohaien, Nizam Uddin Reza and Taibur Rahman alias Hassan.On November 29, 2005, suicide bomber Nazir Hossain, also known as Shariat Ullah, of Gaibandha, walked into the office on the ground floor of the Hall Building-2 at Bhawal Rajbari court and detonated the bomb strapped to his body. The bombing was apparently a part of banned militant outfit JMB’s attack on the judiciary.