Jhalakati judges killing: SC upholds death for JMB man

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.