A Chattogram court on Sunday sentenced a top leader of banned extremist outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh to death and another one to life term imprisonment in a case over the bomb attack at Chattogram court premises in 2005.
The condemned convict is Mizan alias Zahidul Islam alias ‘Boma’ Mizan while the lifer is Zabed Iqbal alias Mohamamd, said JMB Chattogram divisional commander.
Judge Abdul Halim of Chattogram Anti-Terrorism Special Tribunal handed down the verdict.
Zabed is now behind the bar while ‘Boma’ Mizan was tried in absentia.
On February, 13, 2014, some extremists snatched Mizan while he was being taken to Mymensingh from Gazipur’s Kashimpur jail. Since then he remained fugitive.
According to the prosecution, Rajib Barua, a police constable, and Shahabuddin, a justice seeker, were killed as some extremists hurled a bomb on a police check post at the court premises on November 29, 2005.
Ten people including cops and pedestrians were also injured in the attack. A case was filed with Kotwali police station on that day.
On May 18, 2006, then DB inspector Hla Ching Pru submitted a charge-sheet against five people including JMB chief Abdur Rahman, its second-in-command Siddiqur Rahman alias Bangla bhai, its military commander Ataur Rahman Sunny, ‘Boma’ Mizan and Zabed in the case.
On July 16, 2006, a court framed charge against them.
JMB leaders Abdur Rahman, Bangla Bhai and Sunny were hanged in another case and that’s why they were excluded from the case.
Later, the case was shifted to Chattogram Anti-Terrorism Special Tribunal in 2018.
After examining the records and witnesses, the court handed down the verdict.
