Online Desk: The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the review petitions of three convicts–two death-row and one life term–in RU Professor S Taher Ahmed murder case. Now, there is no bar to the execution of the two death-row convicts. They will only get the chance to seek presidential mercy.

A eight-member SC bench, led by Chief justice Hasan Foez Siddique, passed the order today in presence of slain Prof Taher’s wife Sultana Ahmed and daughter lawyer Shegufta Tabassum Ahmed. The two death-row convicts in the case are Dr Mia Mohammad Mohiuddin, the then teacher of Rajshahi University and Md Jahangir Alam, caretaker of Professor S Taher’s residence.

The two life term convicts are Nazmul Alam and Abdus Salam, relatives of caretaker Jahangir Alam.