Sylhet: Delwar Hossain Ripon, one of the associates of banned militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad (Huji) chief Mufti Abdul Hannan, will be hanged on Wednesday night at Sylhet Jail for carrying out grenade attack over former British High Commissioner Anwar Choudhury.

Senior jail super of Sylhet jail Mohammad Sagir told NTV Online the death penalty handed over to Ripon will be executed tonight.

Earlier, on Tuesday after, Ripon’s father Abdul Yusuf, mother Azizunnesa, his wife, and brother Nazmul Islam, meet the death row convict.

The jail authorities said all preparation have been taken for the exaction. Around 10 hangmen are ready to execute the court’s verdict.

On Tuesday morning, the ministry of home affairs sent an execution letter to Sylhet jail. On Sunday, President Abdul Hamid rejected a mercy plea filed by Mufti Abdul Hannan, and his associates—Sharif Shahedul Alam Bipul and Delwar Hossain Ripon.

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.