Five police personnel were suspended for negligence in discharging duties after two convicts sentenced to death for the murder of publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan murder was whisked away from a Dhaka court premises yesterday.

Jasim Uddin, deputy commissioner of Prosecution Division of DMP, confirmed it to The Daily Star.

The five suspended members of police are: Court Inspector Matiur Rahman, Sub-inspector Nahidur Rahman Bhuiyan, also in-charge of the prison cell of the CMM Court; Assistant Sub-inspector Mohiuddin, and constables Sharif Hasan and Abdus Sattar.

The two convicts -- Moinul Hasan Shamim alias Samir alias Sifat alias Imran, and Abu Siddiq Sohel alias Sakib alias Sajid alias Shahab -- were among eight militants sentenced to death by a Dhaka Anti-Terrorism Tribunal in February last year for murdering Jagriti Publications publisher Dipan in 2015.