Mohammad Yunus was a Bangladeshi academic and Professor of economics at the University of Rajshahi.
[7] Shahidullah aka Mahbub and Safiullah were charged with the murder along with 6 others by Criminal Investigation Department of Bangladesh Police.
He confessed to the police and claimed the killings were carried on the orders of Shaykh Abdur Rahman, the head of Jamatul Mujahideen Bangladesh.
He was the son-in-law of Rafiqul Islam, older brother of Siddikur Rahman alias Bangla Bhai, the military head of Jamatul Mujahideen Bangladesh.
At a retrial, Justice Golam Ahmed Khalilul of Rajshahi Speedy Trial Tribunal reduced the sentence of the two convicts, Shahidullah and Safiullah, to life imprisonment on 24 February 2016.