DHAKA: Ghulam Azam’s family people have received his body on Friday morning.

Sources told banglanews that the Dhaka central jail authorities handed over the war crimes convict’s body to his son Brigadier General (retd) Abdullahil Aman Azmi around 7:30am.

Confirming the matter, Abdullahil Aman Azmi said that Ghulam Azam’s body will now be kept at any hospital mortuary as his five of six sons are in abroad.

“And later he will be buried at Moghbazar family graveyard after my brothers return home,” he added.

Earlier, the former Jamaat-e-Islami chief’s autopsy was completed at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) morgue.

Doctor Abul Khayer and Prodip of DMCH forensic department completed the autopsy.

Earlier, the 92-year-old former Jamaat-e-Islami chief breathed his last at 10:10pm on Thursday in city’s BSMMU.

Ghulam Azam was kept there on life support there from the evening.

Earlier, the International Crimes Tribunal-1 sentenced Ghulam Azam to 90-year imprisonment on July 15, 2013 for the crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.

The former Jamaat-e-Islami chief was indicted on five major charges and “found guilty of all the charges” including incitement, conspiracy, planning, complicity and inaction to prevent murder at that time.

While delivering verdict, the Tribunal said Ghulam Azam deserved death sentence for the gravity of the crimes he had committed in 1971, but his old age and poor health forced the judge to hand him down the 90 years of prison.

He was sentenced to 10 years each in two charges – conspiracy and planning; 20 years each for two others – incitement and complicity; and 30 years for crimes against humanity.

However, a total at of  61 incidents of crimes against humanity were brought against Ghulam Azam – five of hatching conspiracy, three of planning, 28 of incitement, 22 of complicity and one count of killing and torturing.

He was the ameer (chief) of East Pakistan Jamaat-e-Islami during the War of Independence on 1971 and became the chief of Jamaat in 1991.

Ghulam Azam, later, handed over charge of the party to Motiur Rahman Nizami, another war crimes accused, in 2000.

BDST: 0836 HRS, OCT 24, 2014