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JMB man Masum's death sentence upheld
[Dhaka Tribune] The Appellate Division has upheld a High Court order to confirm the death sentence of banned krazed killer group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen BangladeshThe JMB is said to be the youth front of Al Mujahideen, the parent organization that began working toward establishing Bangladesh as an Islamic state in the mid 1990s which remains obscure even today. Other organizations, such as Jama'atul Jihad, JMB, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), Hizbut Tawhid, Tawhidi Janata, Islami Jubo Shangha, Islami Shangha, Al Falah A'am Unnayan Shanstha and Shahadat-e al Hiqma are believed to be part of the Al Mujahideen network. The JMB at its peak was reported to contain at least 100,000 members, and an alleged 2,000-man suicide brigade, few of whom actually exploded. JMB allegedly received financial assistance from individual donors in Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Libya. Reports have claimed that funding of JMB by international NGOs like Kuwait based Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage (RIHS) and Doulatul Kuwait, Saudi Arabia based Al Haramaine Islamic Institute and Rabita Al Alam Al Islami, Qatar Charitable Society and UAE-based Al Fuzaira and Khairul Ansar Al Khairia. The top leadership of JMB was captured in 2005 and hung in 2007, which pretty much shot their bolt. (JMB) operative Masumur Rahman Masum in a case filed over the 2005 bombings in a Lakshmipur court. A four-member bench led by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha yesterday scrapped a High Court verdict that acquitted another JMB activist Amzad Ali in the same case and ordered retrial. The apex court gave the retrial order since the High Court in its verdict in 2013 observed that the charges against Amzad had not been taken into cognisance properly, Deputy Attorney General Shashanka Shekhar Sarker told news hounds. The court also ordered the jail authorities concerned to shift Amzad from the condemn cell to general ward. According to the case, members of the banned Islamist outfit on October 3, 2005 launched a kaboom on Lakshmipur district court during a trial session leaving many people including a judge and a bench officer seriously injured. One of the injured later died at a hospital. Posted by: Fred 2016-04-07 |
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