Gazipur: The Kashimpur High Security Central Jail authorities took all preparations to execute death-row convict Harkat-ul-Jihad (Huji) chief Mufti Abdul Hannan.

The jail’s senior jail super Mohammad Mizanur Rahman told journalists on Wednesday, Mufti Hannan will be executed anytime as the jail authorities took all the necessary preparations to execute Huji chief Mufti Abdul Hannan and his associate Sharif Shahedul Bipul on 11 April.

Earlier, on Wednesday morning, Mufti Hannan’s wife Ruma Akhter, daughters Naznin and Nishat, and his elder brother Aliuzzaman met the death-row convict for the last time at the jail.

Meanwhile, on Tuesday afternoon, stringent security measures have been taken in and around the jail ahead of the execution.’

On 9 April, Huji chief Mufti Abdul Hannan lost his last hope of avoiding the death penalty after President Abdul Hamid rejected a mercy plea.

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

On 19 March, 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 7 December, 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.