Reports of execution before appeal disposal not true: Anisul

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Law Minister Anisul Huq has refuted reports of executing two death row convicts from Chuadanga before disposing of their appeals.

“There is no match between the information I have and the reports published (on newspapers) in this regard. These reports of executing those two before disposing of their appeals are not true,” he said this while talking to newsmen at his secretariat office on Thursday, BSS reports.

“Those two were sentenced to death by the lower court. The High Court division of the Supreme Court too confirmed their death sentence. They had appealed against the judgement and the Appellate Division too had upheld judgements of the lower court and the High Court. The two convicts finally pleaded for presidential clemency. They were ultimately executed as the
President turned down their pleas,” Anisul added.