Expressing his reaction to the verdicts in the CPB rally bomb blast and 1988 Laldighi Massacre cases, Law Minister Anisul Huq on Tuesday said it has been proved with the judgments that no criminal is above the law, no matter how powerful they are.

After long 32 years of the gruesome killing of 24 people attending Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina's rally in Chittagong in 1988, a court here on Monday sentenced five people to death in a case over the killing.