DHAKA: A Dhaka court issued the death warrant for dismissed army captain Abdul Majed, one of the six absconding death-row convicts in the Bangabandhu killing case.

District and Sessions Judge Md Helal Chowdhury issued the death warrant on Wednesday (April 8).

Earlier in the morning, Dhaka District Public Prosecutor Khandakar Abdul Mannan filed an application with the court seeking issuance of death warrant for Majed.

Although all the courts across the country have been declared closed till April 14 due to the outbreak of coronavirus, District and Sessions Judge Md Helal Chowdhury opened his court today only to hear the petition as per the instruction of the Supreme Court.

On Tuesday, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Dhaka AM Zulfikar Hayat sent Abdul Majed to Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj when Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit under Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) produced him before the court amid tight security.

A specialised police unit overnight arrested the suspended captain Abdul Majed, who had been on the run for long 23 years, from Mirpur in the capital early Tuesday.

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.

BDST: 1435 HRS, APR 08, 2020
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