NEW DELHI, 11 Feb – RIA Novosti. Bangladesh authorities have executed the sentence of one of the murderers of President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, a former army officer of Bangladesh Abdul Majid was executed in Central prison of Dhaka, reports the Week.
President Rahman was assassinated on 15 August 1975 at his residence in Dhaka with his wife, three sons, other relatives and friends of the family. Survived by only two daughters who were abroad.
the Death sentence was executed four days after President Abdul Hamid rejected a petition for clemency. The same day, the District and sessions court of Dhaka handed down the death sentence Majid, who was arrested on 7 April.
Held various posts after the coup Majed was forced to leave the country in 1996 after the Prime Minister of Bangladesh was Sheikh Hasina wajed, daughter of the first President reopened the investigation into the murder of his family.
One of 15 people sentenced to death for murder during the military coup in Bangladesh in 1975, Majid was hiding in Libya and Pakistan, and then moved to India, where he returned to Bangladesh on 15 or 16 March after the start of the pandemic coronavirus, the newspaper notes.
