Series bomb blasts: Sylhet JMB leader gets life term
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Series bomb blasts: Sylhet JMB leader gets life term

Series bomb blasts: Sylhet JMB leader gets life term


A Sylhet court on Sunday sentenced a leader of banned militant outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to life term imprisonment in a case filed over a series of bomb blasts in Sylhet  in 2005.

The convict is Mawlana Abdul Aziz alias Hanif, a local leader of JMB.

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Sylhet Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Court Judge Mominunessa delivered the verdict.

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Charges were framed in the case on May 27, 2014.

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According to the case statement, on August 19, 2005, militants of JMB exploded series bombs at 29 spots including 12 important ones of Sylhet, leaving 15 people, including a Judge of Speedy Trial Tribunal, injured.

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Police later filed 29 separate cases over the blasts under the Special Powers Act and most of them are still under trial.

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