Bangabandhu’s killer Abdul Mazed sent to jail

A Dhaka court has ordered to send Father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's killer captain (retd) Abdul Mazed to jail.

The court of Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Julfikar Hayat passed the order on Tuesday.

He was produced before the courtaround 12.00pm.

Acting on a tip-off, a team of police’s Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit arrested him from Mirpur area around 3.30am Tuesday.

Five convicted Bangabangdhu killers were executed on January 27 in 2010. They are - Syed FarukRahman, Mohiuddin Ahmed, Bazlul Huda, AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed and Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan.

However, six more self-confessed killers - KhandakerAbdur Rashid, SharifulHaqueDalim, Noor Chowdhury, RashedChowdhury, Abdul Mazed and Moslehuddin Khan- remained at large over last four decades.

The trial of Bangabandhu assassination case started in 1997, 22 years after a group of disgruntled army officers assassinated him along with most of his family members on August 15 in 1975 in Dhamandi-32 residence.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on November 19, 2009 upheld the death penalty of 12 convicted ex-army officers for the assassinations.

 

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