Police in Chattogram today (October 26, 2022) pressed charges implicating 16 members of “Neo JMB” including an expatriate in connection with the case filed over the bomb blast at a traffic police box in port city's Sholoshahar Gate-2 area on February 28, 2020 which left five people including two policemen injured.
Police officers believe that the two fugitive leaders of Ansar al Islam, for whose information the US State department declared a $5 million reward, are hiding somewhere in Bangladesh.
Avijit murder: 5 get death penalty, one life term
Star Digital Report
Star Digital Report
A Dhaka tribunal today sentenced five members of banned militant outfit Ansar al Islam to death and another to life in jail for killing blogger-writer Avijit Roy in February 2015.
Sayed Mohammad Ziaul Haque alias Maj (sacked) Zia, Akram Hossain, Abu Siddiq Sohel, Mozammel Hossain Saimon and Arafat Rahman Siam were sentenced to death.
Shafiur Rahman Farabi was sentenced to life in prison.
Of them, Major Zia and Akram are still absconding, while the rest are behind bars.
Judge Md Majibur Rahman of the Anti-Terrorism Special Tribunal of Dhaka handed down the sentence in presence of the four convicted in a packed courtroom around noon today.
The family of slain writer-blogger Avijit Roy today demanded immediate arrest of the two fugitives, including the mastermind behind the killing Sayed Mohammad Ziaul Haque alias Major (sacked) Zia. "Police administration should not be relaxed after the judgment. They should continue their efforts, to some extent, double their efforts, to arrest the two masterminds Major Zia