The Supreme Court (SC) cleared the way for executing Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) leader Asadul Islam alias Arif for killing two judges of Jhalakati in 2005.A five-member bench of the Appellate Division led by chief justice SK Sinha passed the order on Sunday morning.Senior Assistant Judges - Jagannath Pandey and Sohel Ahmed - were killed in a suicide bomb attack at Purba Chadkati in Jhalakathi town on November 14, 2005 in the wake of a series of violent militant attacks across the country.The Appellate Division had upheld death penalty of 7 JMB leaders including JMB chief Abdur Rahman, his second-in-command Siddiqul Islam alias Bangla Bhai, Asadul and four other militants in the sensational Jhalakathi judges’ killing case.Death sentence of the militants except Asadul were executed on March 29, 2007.