Bangabandhu's Killer Abdul Majed Sent to Jail

Captain Abdul Majed, the convicted killer of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was sent to jail hours after he was arrested in Dhaka today.

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Dhaka AM Zulfikar Hayat passed the order after Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit under Dhaka Metropolitan Police produced him before the court in the afternoon.

Abdul Majed was arrested from Mirpur area of Dhaka around 3:00 am today, police said.

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.

Six other convicts including Abdul Majed remained at large. Another condemned killer died in Zimbabwe in June 2001.

A task force comprised of ministers and high officials of the foreign, law and home ministries was formed in 2010 to locate and bring back the six.

The government had also made global appeals in bilateral, regional and international forums to track down the culprits.