Mufti Hannan files review petition against death penalty

Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (Huji) chief Mufti Abdul Hannan yesterday filed a petition with the Supreme Court seeking review of its judgement that upheld his death penalty in a case filed for the 2004 grenade attack on the then UK envoy in Bangladesh.

The condemned militant leader submitted the 100-page review petition through his lawyer on record Nahid Sultana also seeking his acquittal.

Mufti Abdul Hannan's lawyer Mohammad Ali told The Daily Star that the Appellate Division of the SC will later on fix a date for hearing the petition.

Meanwhile, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam said if the SC dismisses Hannan's review petition, the jail authorities can execute him.