DHAKA: Abdul Mazed, one of the six absconding death-row convicts in the Bangabandhu killing case, will be executed any time.

As President Abdul Hamid rejected mercy pleas, there is no legal bar in executing the dismissed army captain any time, said Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Thursday (April 9).

When asked, the minister said, “Time of his execution has not been set. We will sit to fix the time.” 

President Hamid rejected Majed’s plea after it had reached the president’s residence on Wednesday night, hours after the convict filed the petition, a Bangabhaban source said earlier this morning.  

His death warrant reached to Dhaka Central Jail on Wednesday (April 8) afternoon, hours after a Dhaka court had issued it. 

Later, jail authorities read it out to him at the Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj and asked whether he would seek pardon to the president, and he agreed. 

On early Tuesday, the suspended captain Abdul Majed, who had been on the run for long 23 years, was arrested from Mirpur in the capital.

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.

They were Syed Farooq Rahman, Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Bazlul Huda, AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed, and Mohiuddin Ahmed. Meanwhile, another killer, Aziz Pasha, died in Zimbabwe in 2001.

Abdul Majed is from Batamara village at Borhanuddin upazila of Bhola district. His properties in his village have already been confiscated by the district administration.

BDST: 1753 HRS, APR 09, 2020
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