Dhaka: The 10th anniversary of the countrywide serial bomb blasts carried out by the banned Islamic militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).

The JMB militants carried out the simultaneous bomb attacks mainly at courts and government institutions in 63 district towns on the morning of 17 August, 2005, leaving three people dead and hundreds more wounded.

The group set off the bombs to give a wake-up call to the government about its active emergence.

Around 300 cases had been filed with different police stations across the country in connection with the serial bomb blasts. Many of the cases have already been disposed of sentencing JMB members, including its top leaders to death, and life imprisonment while the remaining ones are under trial.

Six top JMB leaders, including its supremo Abdur Rahman and his deputy Bangla Bhai, were executed on 29 March, 2007 for killing two Jhalakati judges. The rest are Abdul Awal, JMB Majlish-e-Shura (highest decision-making body) member and Rahman’s son-in-law, its military commander and Rahman’s youngest brother Ataur Rahman Sunny and suicide bomber Iftekhar Hasan Mamun.

Meanwhile, Inspector General of Police AKM Shahidul Hoque on Sunday said police submitted charge sheets in all the cases filed in connection with the 17 August countrywide serial bombings.

Verdicts in many cases were delivered while others are now under trial, the IGP said while talking to reporters after a discussing marking the 40th death anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Rajarbagh Police lines in Dhaka in the afternoon.

He said militant activities are now under control as the law enforcement agencies are playing their due role.

‘The law enforcement agencies are active so that militants can’t carry out any incident,’ the IGP added.