DHAKA, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- Bangladesh's highest court has upheld death penalty for three militants of the local banned Harkat-ul- Jehad-al-Islami (HUJI), including its ringleader Mufti Abdul Hannan, for the grenade attack on former British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Anwar Chowdhury in 2004.
A four-member bench of the Supreme Court's Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha delivered the verdict on Wednesday after dismissing the appeals moved by the convicts who are now behind the bar.
Md Ali, a defence lawyer, told journalists that they will move petitions with the Appellate Division of seeking review of its judgment after receiving full text of the verdict.
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