Kamaruzzaman transferred to Dhaka jail

Convicted war criminal and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman was transferred to Dhaka Central Jail from Kashimpur jail in Gazipur today, a day after the Supreme Court had upheld his death penalty.

He was taken to Dhaka jail around 2:30pm, Farman Ali, senior jail super of Dhaka Central Jail, told The Daily Star.He however said that they were yet to get any copy of “warrant of execution”.The SC yesterday upheld the death penalty for him as a war crimes tribunal awarded him the capital punishment a year and a half ago.

The apex court verdict has paved the way for execution of the Jamaat leader, a key organiser of the infamous Al-Badr Bahini responsible for abducting, torturing and killing freedom fighters, intellectuals and pro-liberation people in 1971.