07 September 2022 :
A Chattogram court on 17 August 2022 sentenced five Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militants to death in a case filed for bombings at two mosques inside Bangladesh Navy’s Issa Khan Base in Chattogram in 2015.
The order was passed by Chattogram Anti-Terrorism Tribunal Judge Abdul Halim.
The death row convicts are Abdul Mannan, Ramjan Ali, Bablu Rahman Roni, Abdul Gaffar and former Navy member M Sakhawat Hossain. Of them, Sakhawat is absconding.
The court also fined them Tk 50,000 each.
Public Prosecutor Monoranjan Das confirmed the matter to Jago News.
On 18 December 2015, 24 Muslim devotees were injured when a number of bombs exploded at the two mosques.
On 28 January 2020, the court framed charges against the accused in the case.
