Bangladesh to hang killer of founder Mujibur Rahman

Bangladesh to hang killer of founder Mujibur Rahman

Officials remain tight-lipped about media reports that killer was hiding in India

By SM Najmus Sakib

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – After 45 years, the fugitive killer of Bangladesh’s founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will be hanged until death.

Retired Capt. Abdul Majed was arrested by local police on Tuesday from the capital Dhaka.

His execution is expected to give closure to family, friends and thousands of supporters of Rahman, who led the liberation war against Pakistan and became the first prime minister of Bangladesh in 1971.

He was brutally killed along with his family in a coup on Aug. 15, 1975.

He is survived by two daughters, Sheikh Hasina, who is now prime minister of Bangladesh, and Sheikh Rehana. They were out of the country at the time of the coup.

No date has yet been announced for his execution, but Law Minister Anisul Huq told Anadolu Agency “all formalities before his execution” has been taken care of.

Local media reports state Majed confessed in the court that he was hiding in India for two decades and returned to Dhaka last month, but officials have remained tight-lipped about the development.

“We do not have information exactly when he returned to Bangladesh as we have not investigated or interrogated him after the arrest,” said Masudur Rahman, a senior police officer.

Law Minister Huq echoed the view. “I am not aware of reports that he was absconding in India.”

Earlier, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan in a video message for the nation said the arrest is a gift for the people of the country on the 100th birth anniversary of the father of the nation.

In 2009, the country’s Supreme Court upheld the death sentences of Majed and 11 others in the murder.

Five of them were hanged to death in 2010, one died in Zimbabwe in 2001 and five are still absconding.

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