Bangabandhu’s killer Abdul Mazed arrested

Father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's killer captain (retd) Abdul Mazed has been arrested from Dhaka.

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.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal confirmed the news.

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

However, six more self-confessed killers - Khandaker Abdur Rashid, Shariful Haque Dalim, Noor Chowdhury, Rashed Chowdhury, 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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