Mujib killer Abdul Majed, who was hiding in Kolkata for 23 yrs, hanged, buried in Dhaka
Dhaka/IBNS: Abdul Majed, the convicted killer of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members, who was hiding in Kolkata in West Bengal for nearly 23 years, was hanged in Dhaka on Sunday. He was later buried at the family graveyard of his in-laws in Hosenpur under Sonargaon area in Narayanganj on the same day.
Majed, a former military captain involved in the 1975 coup in which Bangladesh's founding father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was assassinated, was executed at Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj, ending another chapter in the troubled history of the country.
Earlier on Thursday, President Abdul Hamid rejected Majed's petition for presidential clemency, filed by the convict's lawyer Mosharraf Hossain Kajol on April 8, reported The Daily Star.
After decades of absconding, Bangladesh security forces had arrested him on Apr 7 from Gabtoli.
"Majed said he arrived in the country on March 15 or 16 from Kolkata. He claimed that he was hiding there for about 23 years," Hemayet Uddin Khan, assistant public prosecutor, told The Daily Star.
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, reported the newspaper.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who is the founding father of current Bangladesh PM SHeikh Hasina, was killed during a military coup in 1975.
The incident occurred just four years after Bangladesh had gained independence from Pakistan, shocking the new nation and its people who were settling after a long war to gain freedom.
Majed continued to live in the country after the coup but it is believed he fled to India in 1996 when Hasina was elected prime minister, reports BBC.
Bangladesh Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan was quoted in media saying that Majed was involved in the assassination of Mujibur Rahman (along with his wife and three sons) at his Dhaka residence on Aug 15, 1975, besides the killing of other leaders inside a high-security prison on Nov 3 in the same year.
Current Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her younger sister Sheikh Rehana, both daughters of Bangabandu, survived as they were abroad during the assassination.
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