Jessore -- Two of the three condemned killers of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal founding president Kazi Aref Ahmed and four other party men were hanged at Jessore Central Jail on Thursday night. Anwar Hossain and Rashedul Islam Jhantu of Khursa village in Mirpur upazila of Kushtia district were hanged around 11:05pm, said jail sources.Another death-row convict, Safayet Hossain Habib of Rajnagar village in Mirpur upazila, is set to be executed at 11:45pm night, said jail sources.
Five people, including Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal leader and one of the Liberation War organisers Kazi Aref Ahmed, were shot to death by some miscreants at a rally in Kushtia on February 16, 1999.
Ishak Ali, the then sub-inspector of Daulatpur Police Station, filed a case the following day.
On August 30, 2004, a Kushtia court sentenced 10 people to death and 11 others to life imprisonment in the case. Later, the High Court upheld the death sentence of nine condemned convicts while acquitted 11 others.