Bangabandhu’s Killer Majed Hanged

The execution of Captain Abdul Majed, the convicted killer of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members, took place today at 12:00 am in Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj.

Mahbubul Islam, the jailer at Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj, confirmed to media at 12:03 am.

On Friday, some of Abdul Majed's relatives visited him in Dhaka Central Prison, where he was kept in solitary confinement in the death row.

Earlier on Thursday, President Abdul Hamid denied Majed's petition for presidential clemency filed on 8 April by convict's lawyer Mosharraf Hossain Kajol.

Captain Majed was arrested on April 7 from Gabtoli in the wee hours, after decades of remaining absconding.

He was nabbed by the Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit of the police.

"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 media. 

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.

Six other convicts, including Abdul Majed, remained in large numbers. The other criminal murderers have been dismissed by Lt Col Khandaker Abdur Rashid, SHBM Noor Chowdhury, Shariful Haque Dalim, Rashed Chowdhury, and Risaldar Moslehuddin.

Another condemned killer, Aziz Pasha, died in Zimbabwe in June 2001.

Captain Majed was also found guilty and sentenced for life in a murder case involving the murder of former Prime Minister Tajuddin Ahmed and three other imprisoned members of the Awami League.