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50 appeals of militants pending with SC

Muhammad Yeasin
50 appeals of militants pending with SC

At least 52 death references and appeals of militants have been pending for long before the Supreme Court. These were not disposed of because the prosecution did not take steps, officials and lawyers said.
All death-row convicts are in jail. But those sentenced for various terms, including life, are out of jail after securing bail from courts.
According to sources in the Supreme Court and police headquarters, trial courts have handed down death sentences to 62 militants in the past 10 years. Six of them have been executed, while trial proceedings of three have been completed and they would be executed anytime. The rest 53 militants’ death references and appeals have been pending before the apex court.
Talking to The Independent, the additional registrar of the Supreme Court, Sabbir Foyez, said they were preparing a list of cases relating to Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and Harkat-ul Jihad al-Islami Bangladesh (HuJi) men that are pending before the High Court and the Supreme Court.
“We are giving due importance to preparing the paper work and other documents of these cases so that they can be disposed of quickly,” he said.
He also said that the list of cases relating to JMB and HuJi men has been sent to a HC bench, comprising Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice JBM Hassan, for final disposal. He added that the HC bench has fixed July 28 for delivering its order on the death reference and appeals filed by 10 members of the banned Islamist militant outfit JMB against their death penalty for killing nine people in a suicide bomb attack on the Gazipur court premises on November 29, 2005.
“If the list grows larger, we will send some of the cases to the other bench of the High Court so that all these cases can be disposed of quickly,” the apex court official said. According to the sources, the Ramna Batamul bombing attack case is now pending before the HC. Ten people were killed after a bomb exploded during cultural troupe Chhayanaut’s programme at the capital’s Ramna Batamul on the morning of April 14, 2001.
Harkat-ul-Jihad (HuJi) top leader Mufti Abdul Hannan and 13 other militants were accused in the murder case filed over the bomb attack. On June 23, 2014, a Dhaka court sentenced to death eight of the accused and gave life imprisonment to six others.
The appeal of five HuJi militants for the assassination attempt on former British High Commissioner Anwar Choudhury in 2004 is pending before the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court; the case of bomb attack at the Udichi office in Netrokona is pending before the High Court, sources said.
Six militants, including Sheikh Abdur Rahman, were hanged following completion of trial proceedings of a case filed for blasting a bomb at the Jhalakathi court in 2005.  The three death-row convicts, Asadul Islam, alias Arif, was convicted in the Jhalakathi bomb blast case, Akhtaruzaman was convicted in the Sylhet court bomb blast case and HM Masudur Rahman was sentenced in the Lakshmipur court bomb blast case. They could be executed anytime.
Apart from these, the 52 other militants’ death references and appeals in various cases are pending before the High Court and the Supreme Court.
Attorney general Mahbubey Alam said there is a huge backlog of cases pending before the court. Hence, the court has not been able to dispose of the cases quickly.
On July 19, the chief law officer of the state had emphasised that a coordination cell should be formed to give information to his office and office of the public prosecutor to stop militants from getting bail.

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