Death warrant issued for Bangabandhu’s killer Majed

A Dhaka court has issued the death warrant for dismissed army captain Abdul Majed, one of the six absconding death-row convicts in the Bangabandhu killing case, paving the way for his execution.

District and Sessions Judge Md Helal Chowdhury issued the death warrant on Wednesday.

Earlier in the morning, Dhaka District Public Prosecutor Khandakar Abdul Mannan filed an application with the court seeking issuance of death warrant for Majed, who was arrested on Tuesday.

Although all the courts across the country have been declared closed till April 14 due to the outbreak of coronavirus, District and Sessions Judge Md Helal Chowdhury opened his court only to hear the petition as per the instruction of the Supreme Court.

Earlier on Tuesday, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Dhaka AM Zulfikar Hayat sent Abdul Majed to Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj when Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit under Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) produced him before the court amid tight security.

The Supreme Court on November 19, 2009, upheld the death sentences of Abdul Majed and 11 other self-confessed killers of Bangabandhu. Of them, five were executed on January 27, 2010.

They were Syed Farooq Rahman, Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Bazlul Huda, AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed, and Mohiuddin Ahmed. Meanwhile, another killer, Aziz Pasha, died in Zimbabwe in 2001.

The trial process began in 1996 when an indemnity law was scrapped as it was protecting the assassins.

 

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