DHAKA, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- The death warrant of three convicted of a local banned group for the grenade attack on former British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Anwar Chowdhury in 2004, has reached a jail in Gazipur on the outskirts of capital Dhaka.
A jail official who did not like to be named told Xinhua Tuesday that the warrant was read out to the death row convicts of the local banned Harkat-ul-Jehad-al-Islami (HUJI), including its ringleader Mufti Abdul Hannan.
Bangladesh's highest court on Dec. 7 last year upheld death penalty for the militants.
A four-member bench of the Supreme Court's Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha dismissed the appeals moved by the convicts who are now behind the bar.
The militants said they will move petitions with the Appellate Division of seeking review of its judgment.
After the apex court verdict, the official said a trial court issued the death warrant, which couple of days back reached Gazipur's Kashimpur Jail.
If the apex court verdict is unchanged even after review, according to the official, the convicts will have the only options of seeking presidential clemency to save their lives.
The convicts had conducted the grenade attack on Chowdhury on May 21, 2004 at a shrine of Muslim saint in the country's northeastern city of Sylhet where the Bangladesh-born British high commissioner came to offer prayer.
Three people were killed and over 100, including Anwar Chowdhury, were injured in the deadly attack.
