Sylhet: Sylhet Central Jail authorities have taken all the necessary preparations to execute of death-row convict Delwar Alias Ripon, an associate of Harkat-ul-Jihad (Huji) chief Mufti Abdul Hannan, as his rejected mercy petition reached them on Tuesday morning.

Police super of the district Sagir Miah said the jail authorities received the rejected petition around 9.30am.

Earlier, on March, 27, three Huji men, including its chief, filed separate petitions seeking presidential clemency. President Abdul Hamid turned down the mercy petitions on April 8.

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.

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.