Dhaka, June 16 (IANS) Bangladesh is seeking to fast-forward the enforcing of death sentences delivered by a lower court against top leaders of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) last month for killing two judges.

The high court on Thursday permitted the government "to make the paper books" to hear on priority basis the death reference of the judges' killers, including JMB chief Shaikh Abdur Rahman, his deputy Siddiqul Islam alias Bangla Bhai and five others, the UNB news agency here reported.

The high court passed an order permitting the Attorney General's office to make the paper-books by the concerned section of the Supreme Court under the government management.

Two judges Sohel Ahmed and Jagannath Pande were killed in bomb explosions last year after which the government cracked down on the militant organisation, the existence of which it had been denying to the world community.

The government argued that it wants to execute the judgment of the judges' killing case on priority basis. It would take at least three years to hear the death reference of this case, if the serial of the death references pending in the high court is maintained, as the court is now hearing the death references of 2003.

Earlier on June 6, Law Minister Moudud Ahmed, met Chief Justice Syed J.R. Mudassir Husain at his Supreme Court office to discuss the matter, the Bangladesh Observer newspaper said.