Five ex-army officers hanged to death in Bangladesh for killing Mujibur Rehman
merisarkar news service
New Delhi, January 28, 2010
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was killed on 15 Aug, 1975
The convicted officers were executed minutes after midnight on Thursday inside high security Dhaka Central Jail.
Ex-lieutenant colonel Mohiuddin Ahmed and ex-major Bazlul Huda were hanged first as the execution process started while ex-lieutenant colonel Syed Faruq Rahman was the third to be executed minutes later.
After that the prison authorities also carried out the execution orders for Ex-lieutenant colonels Shahriar Rashid Khan and AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed by hanging them to death.
The review petitions filed by all the five convicts against the death sentence were rejected on Wednesday morning following which the death sentences were executed as the Bangladesh President had also rejected their mercy petitions.
Convicted Army Officers
Security had been beefed in the capital as the executions were carried out.
Earlier in November last year, the Bangladesh Supreme Court had upheld the high court verdict sentencing twelve persons to death for killing Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members on August 15th 1975.
Apart from the five convicts who have now been executed, six more convicts are still at large while one person has died.
The killers of Sheikh Mujibur Rehman, popularly known as Bangbandhu, and his family members were punished more than three decades after the crime.
Preparations for the execution of the five convicts behind bars began hours after the Supreme Court rejected their review petitions on Wednesday morning.
Immediately after the Court's ruling reached the Jail authorities, family members of the convicts were called to meet them.
Now the Bangladesh government hopes that it will be able to nab the remaining six persons who are facing a death sentence in the case but are hiding abroad so that they do not escape from justice.
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