No bar to execute Mujib killer Majed

President Abdul Hamid has turned town the mercy petition of retired army Captain Abdul Majed, one of the convicted killers of the country’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, clearing the way for his execution.

‘I’ve heard that president Abdul Hamid has dismissed the mercy pleas of Majed but I’m yet to receive the copy,’ home minister Asaduzzaman Khan said on Thursday.

The president rejected the petition when it reached Bangabhaban on Wednesday night after he sought presidential clemency for his deeds.

Earlier, a court issued the death warrant for Majed.

Judge of Dhaka’s District and Sessions Court M Helal Chowdhury issued the death warrant for Majed after he was placed before his court.

The court also showed him arrested in the Mujib murder case.

Sources at Dhaka Central Jail said that the death warrant reached the jail at about 5:00pm on Wednesday and it was read out to Majed.

Majed was arrested from the city’s Mirpur area on early Tuesday.

A team of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit arrested him at about 3:30am.

He was placed before the court of chief metropolitan magistrate AM Zulfiqar Hayat which sent him to jail on the day.

On August 15, 1975, Bangladesh’s founding president Sheikh Mujib and most of his family members were assassinated by a group of military personnel.

Eighteen members of his family, including his wife Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib, three sons — Captain Sheikh Kamal, Lieutenant Sheikh Jamal and 10-year-old Sheikh Russel, two daughters-in-law Sultana Kamal and Rosy Jamal, brother Sheikh Naser, peasant leader Abdur Rab Serniabat, youth leader Sheikh Fazlul Haq Moni and his wife Arzu Moni, Baby Serniabat, Sukanta Babu, Arif and Abdul Nayeem Khan Rintu, were, among others, were also killed on that fateful night.

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net