Aug 17 Series bomb blasts
5 JMB men jailed for 12 yrs
Staff Reporter :
A Dhaka court on Sunday found five members of the banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) guilty and sentenced them to 12 years rigorous imprisonment in a case filed over simultaneous bomb blasts throughout the country on August 17, 2005.
A further six months have been added to each of their sentences owing to their failure to pay fines of Tk 30,000.
Dhaka Metropolitan Special Tribunal-2 Judge Md Al Mamun handed down the verdict, said lawyer Md Shahabuddin, the State Prosecutor.
The convicts are Abdullah Al Suhaile, Md Abdur Rahman Masud, Md Nurul Islam alias Ujjal, Habibur Rahman Habib and Md Musa alias Mustafizur Rahman, he said.
JMB leader Ataur Rahman Sunny was also charged in the case, but his name was later dropped after he received the death penalty in a murder case, said Shahabuddin.
The court also fined them Tk 30,000 each, in default, to suffer six months more in jail.
According to the case statement, the accused blasted bombs simultaneously in 63 districts of the country in 2005.
But the attackers fled after carrying out the blast around 11:00am on Aug 17, 2005 in front of the RAJUK market in the capital’s Khilkhet with the intent of damaging public property, according to the judgment under the Explosives Act.
On 2 November 2005, police filed chargesheet in the case. The charges were pressed two years later and by the submission of two supplementary charge-sheets.
On June 12, 2006, the tribunal framed charges against the convicts. A total of 19 prosecution witnesses deposed in the case on different occasions.
A Dhaka court on Sunday found five members of the banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) guilty and sentenced them to 12 years rigorous imprisonment in a case filed over simultaneous bomb blasts throughout the country on August 17, 2005.
A further six months have been added to each of their sentences owing to their failure to pay fines of Tk 30,000.
Dhaka Metropolitan Special Tribunal-2 Judge Md Al Mamun handed down the verdict, said lawyer Md Shahabuddin, the State Prosecutor.
The convicts are Abdullah Al Suhaile, Md Abdur Rahman Masud, Md Nurul Islam alias Ujjal, Habibur Rahman Habib and Md Musa alias Mustafizur Rahman, he said.
JMB leader Ataur Rahman Sunny was also charged in the case, but his name was later dropped after he received the death penalty in a murder case, said Shahabuddin.
The court also fined them Tk 30,000 each, in default, to suffer six months more in jail.
According to the case statement, the accused blasted bombs simultaneously in 63 districts of the country in 2005.
But the attackers fled after carrying out the blast around 11:00am on Aug 17, 2005 in front of the RAJUK market in the capital’s Khilkhet with the intent of damaging public property, according to the judgment under the Explosives Act.
On 2 November 2005, police filed chargesheet in the case. The charges were pressed two years later and by the submission of two supplementary charge-sheets.
On June 12, 2006, the tribunal framed charges against the convicts. A total of 19 prosecution witnesses deposed in the case on different occasions.
