a court in Bangladesh meted out the death sentence for three militants of the banned Harkat-ul-Jehad-al-Islami (HUJI)

a court in Bangladesh meted out the death sentence for three militants of the banned Harkat-ul-Jehad-al-Islami (HUJI), including its ringleader Mufti Abdul Hannan, for the grenade attack on former British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Anwar Chowdhury on May 21, 2004. Speedy Trial Tribunal Judge Shamim Mohammad Afzal handed down the verdict in northeastern city of Sylhet where the Bangladesh-born high commissioner Chowdhury came under the attack at a shrine of Muslim saint. The two other condemned convicts are Sharif Shahedul Islam Bipul and Delwar Hossain Ripon, organisers of the Islamic extremist group for Sylhet region. In the attack three people were killed and over 100, including Anwar Choudhury, injured in the deadly attack. Earlier, Mufti Abdul Hannan in a statement before a court in Dhaka in 2006 confessed to having supplied grenades for launching the attack.