A five-member Appellate Division panel headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha gave the verdict , rejecting the review plea filed by Asadul Islam on Sunday morning. Senior Assistant Judges Jagannath Pandey and Sohel Ahmed were killed in a suicide bomb attack at Purba Chadkati in Jhalokati on November 14, 2005. The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court had upheld death sentence of seven JMB leaders, including its chief Abdur Rahman, second-in-command Siddiqul Islam alias Bangla Bhai and Asadul in the case filed over the killing of judges in Jhalokati . However, the death sentence of the militants except Asadul were executed in 2007.

Source: Dhaka Tribune August 28, 2016 05:48 UTC