Family to appeal against verdict if JMB chief allows
Our Correspondent, Mymensingh
If Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) chief Shaikh Abdur Rahman permits, his family will appeal against the High Court verdict that confirmed death sentence to seven JMB kingpins including the chief and his top aide Siddiqul Islam alias Bangla Bhai on August 31 in the judges killing case."If they allow us we will file appeal for Abdur Rahman, his younger brother Ataur Rahman Sunny and son-in-law Abdul Awal," Abdur Rahman's younger sister Atika Begum said. She, however, expressed fear that the mujahids would not allow filing an appeal because they have no faith in 'man-made' law. Expressing her reaction to the verdict, Atika said the verdict was not according to the law of the Quran and Sunnah that had been demanded by the mujahids for long. Besides, the government should consider all the matters properly before delivering such verdict, she added. Atika's husband Md Abdul Kadir said he tried several times recently to meet Shaikh Rahman, Ataur Rahman Sunny and Abdul Awal to seek their consent to filing an appeal but the authorities did not allow him. He termed the verdict as 'too quick'. Senior assistant judges Jagannath Pandey and Sohel Ahmed were killed in a suicide bomb attack at Purba Chadkati in Jhalakathi town on November 14 last year in the wake of a series of bomb attacks by the militants across the country.
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