RAJSHAHI, July 26, 2023 (BSS)-Two death-row convicts in the case of Professor S Taher Ahmed of the Department of Geology and Mining in Rajshahi University (RU) are set to be executed within this month as the Supreme Court cleared the ways for it on Tuesday.
 
Two convicts are-Associate Professor Dr Mia Mohammad Mohiuddin of the same department and the deceased's caretaker Md Jahangir Alam.

All legal procedures have already been exhausted as the Supreme Court rejected the pleas of the death-row convicts and the President turned down the Marcy petitions.
 
Abdul Jalil, Senior Jail Super of Rajshahi told BSS that they have taken all necessary preparations to hang the duo and held mock executions and they are ascertained that the execution will be held within this month.
 
Members of the families of the two convicts were called to the prisons to have the last meetings.
 
Relatives of Dr Mia Mohammad Mohiuddin came to jail at 11am while those of caretaker Jahangir an hour later on Tuesday.
 
Body of Prof Taher of Geology and Mining Department was found in a septic tank two days after he went missing on February 1, 2006.
 
Two days later, his son Sanzid filed a murder case with Motihar Police Station in Rajshahi.

Rajshahi Speedy Trial Tribunal on May 22, 2008, awarded death penalty to four people. To others including former RU Chhatra Shibir president Mahbubul Alam Salehi, were acquitted later.
 
On May 13, 2013, the High Court confirmed the capital punishment of Dr Mohiuddin and Jahangir but commuted the punishment of Salam and Nazmul to imprisonment until death.
 
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court turned down the review petitions of the two condemned prisoners on March 2, 2023.
 
An eight-member bench headed by Chief justice Hasan Foez Siddique passed the order.
 
In a latest development, the SC has rejected the petitions which solicited an order to halt execution of convicts.
 
The four-member bench of the Appellate Division led by Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique passed the order. So, there is no bar to execute the two death row convicts now.
 
Various reasons including professional jealousy and fundamental politics of Chhatra Shibir in Rajshahi University campus acted behind the killing of Prof Taher, sources said.
 
Taher was a Professor at the Geology and Mining Department while convict Mohiuddin was an Associate Professor of the same department.
 
In its observation, the court said that convict Prof Dr Mia Mohammad Mohiuddin feared that he would not be able to become a professor if Taher remain alive and that’s why killed him out of professional jealousy.