Death warrants issued for 5 killers

A Dhaka court on Sunday issued death warrants against five convicts in condemned cells in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman assassination case.

Judge Md Abdul Gafur of the District and Sessions Judge’s Court passed the order after he received the final verdict of the Supreme Court.

The court sent the death warrants in a red envelop to the senior jail super of Dhaka Central Jail directing him to take necessary steps to execute the convicts between 21st and 28th day as per the jail code.

The five convicts are Lt Col Syed Farooq Rahman, Lt Col Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Maj Bazlul Huda, Maj (Lancer) AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed and Lt Col (Artillery) Mohiuddin Ahmed.

On November 19, the Appellate Division upheld the death sentences earlier handed down by the HC to a dozen killers, including the five in the condemned cells.

Six of the convicts — Lt Col Khandaker Abdur Rashid, Lt Col Shariful Haque Dalim, Lt Col SHMB Nur Chowdhury, Lt Col AM Rashed Chowdhury, Capt Abdul Mazed and Risaldar Mosleuddin Khan — are still on the run.

The other convict Lt Col Abdul Aziz Pasha died in Zimbabwe in June 2001. He took political asylum in that country.

N.S.: staronline

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