2 JMB men jailed, 5 acquitted for bombing Hossaini Dalan

A Dhaka court has sentenced two members of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to jail and acquitted six others in a case filed over bomb explosions in front of Hossaini Dalan in old Dhaka when members of the Shia community were gathering at the building on the occasion of Holy Ashura. 

Judge Mojibur Rahman of the Special Anti-Terrorism Tribunal in Dhaka passed the order on Tuesday afternoon. 

Earlier in the day, the accused were produced before the court at 11:23 am. 

Earlier on March 1, the tribunal fixed March 15 to announce the verdict. 

On the night of October 23, 2015, Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militants carried out a bomb attack around 1:30 am when members of the Shia community were gathering at the building, about half an hour before the traditional Tajia procession was to be brought out from there to mark the holy Ashura.

SI of the Chawkbazar police station Jalal Uddin filed a case in this regard. The case was first investigated by Chawkbazar police and then transferred to DB. After the investigation, DB South police inspector Shafiuddin Sheikh submitted a chargesheet in the court against 10 militants in October 2016. 

The case was then transferred to the Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court-8 in Dhaka. 

The accused in the case are - Kabir Hossain, Rubel Islam, Abu Saeed, Arman, Hafeez Ahsan Ullah Masud, Shah Jalal, Omar Farooq, Chan Mia, Zahid Hasan and Masud Rana. Among the accused, Arman, Rubel and Kabir have given confessional statements under section 164 in the court.