Dhaka, April 12 – Abdul Majed, convicted killer of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was hanged after midnight following Saturday at the Dhaka Central Jail at Keraniganj on the outskirts of the capital.“He was hanged at 12.01 am,” official news agency BSS quoted Law Minister Anisul Huq as saying in its report on the execution.
The report said, a prison official said the civil surgeon declared Majed dead at 12.15 am. No further detail was available.
Earlier on Friday night, family members met Majed at Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj. On Wednesday, President Abdul Hamid turned down the mercy petition of Majed, clearing the way for his execution.
A team of the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit arrested Majed from the city’s Mirpur area on Tuesday.
On August 15, 1975, Bangladesh’s founding father Bangabandhu and most of his family members were assassinated by a cabal of military men.
Five convicted killers of Bangabandhu – Syed Farooq Rahman, Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Bazlul Huda, AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed and Mohiuddin Ahmed – were hanged in January 2010.
Another killer Aziz Pasha met natural death in Zimbabwe in 2001.
