Family members of Harkat-ul-Jihad (Huji) chief Mufti Abdul Hannan and his associate Sharif Shahedul Bipul have been asked to meet them at jail.

The jail authorities on Tuesday sent separate letters to the families of Mufti Hannan and Bipul asking them to meet their respective family members inside the jail, said Mizanur Rahman, jail super of Kashimpur Central Jail in Gazipur.

However, no specific date was mentioned in the letter for the meetings.

Meanwhile, the jail authorities have completed all necessary preparations to execute the two Huji men as their mercy petitions were rejected by President Abdul Hamid, reports UNB.

Stringent security measures were in place in and around the jail ahead of the execution, said jail sources.

On the other hand, the rejected mercy petition of another death-row convict Delwar alias Ripon reached Sylhet Central Jail on Tuesday morning.

Earlier, on March, 27, the three Huji men, including its chief, filed separate petitions seeking presidential clemency.

On March 19, the Appellate Division upheld the death sentence of Mufti Hannan, Delwar Alias Ripon and Sharif Shahedul Alam alias Bipul after hearing the review petitions filed by the three death-row convicts. It released the full text of its verdict on March 21.

Among them, Mufti Hannan and Sharif Shahedul Alam alias Bipul have been kept at Kashimpur Central Jail while Delwar Alias Ripon is in Sylhet Central Jail.

On December 7, 2016, an SC bench, headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha, upheld the death penalty of the three in the case rejecting appeals filed by the Huji chief and Bipul challenging the High Court verdict that had upheld their death sentence awarded by the tribunal.

In 2004, then British High Commissioner Anwar Choudhury came under a grenade attack while coming out of Hazrat Shahjalal’s shrine in his hometown Sylhet. The envoy and 40 employees of Sylhet district administration were injured in the attack.