Bangabandhu's killer Majed hanged
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's self-confessed condemned killer Capt (dismissed) Abdul Majed was hanged at Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj at 12:01am today (Sunday).
The 72-year-old Majed was hanged following the hangman put a particular kind of rope around his neck, jail sources said. Afterward, the hangman carried out his loss of life by hanging him. Your body was placed hanging for quite a while. Then the human body was brought down.
Later, the Dhaka district's civil surgeon confirmed his death by cutting the veins of his wrists and feet.
Earlier, imam of the jail mosque conducted customary rituals including performing Tawbah or repentance.
The prison doctors examined your body and executed post mortem.
Inspector Basic of Prisons Brigadier General AKM Mostofa Kamal Pasha, Dhaka district civil surgeon, district magistrate and senior police officials were present through the hanging within the high security prison substance.
Three ambulances, among which was to transport your body, were kept ready as all preparations were completed to execute Majed.
Before, the jail authorities took each and every one important preparations to execute Majed soon after the government's execution buy reached the prison on Thursday.
Security around the Dhaka Central Jail was first tightened with the deployment of huge contingent of police agency personnel in the area.
At about 8:00pm, Inspector General of Prisons Brigadier General AKM Mostofa Kamal Pasha told journalists that important preparations were taken up to hang the condemned convict Abdul Majed. Adequate securitty procedures were been taken outside and inside the Dhaka Central Jail, he said.
Law enforcing agencies said Majed was arrested from before Gabtali Bus Statnd in about 3:45 on Monday nights. He was arrested after 44 years 7 a few months and 21 days in to the killing of Bangabandhu and his members of the family.
Five members of the family of Majed including his wife met him in jail going back time early on Friday afternoon. Before hanging, every condemned convict is definitely allowed to meet her or his family members.
On Wednesday morning hours, Dhaka District and Sessions Judge M Helal Uddin Chowdhury ordered to issue death warrant of Mazed.
In the afternoon of this day, Majed delivered a mercy petition to the President. The jail authorities directed the petition to the Ministry of Residence Affairs in the afternoon. It had been later taken up to Bangabhaban where Presient Abdul Hamid rejected the petition.
Majed was the sixth army officer who was executed for the murders of then president Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and almost all of his members of the family at his No. 32 Dhanmondi home in the early hours of August 15, 1975.
One of is own two surviving daughters, Sheikh Hasina, is now the primary minister of the country.
