DHAKA: President Abdul Hamid has rejected mercy pleas of Abdul Majed, one of the six absconding death-row convicts in the Bangabandhu killing case, paving the way for his execution.  

President Hamid rejected Majed’s plea after it had reached the president’s residence on Wednesday night, hours after the convict filed the petition, a Bangabhaban source said.  

The jail authorities earlier said they sent the dismissed army captain’s petition for clemency to the home ministry. 

His death warrant reached to Dhaka Central Jail on Wednesday afternoon, hours after a Dhaka court had issued it. 

Later, jail authorities read it out to Majed at the Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj and asked whether he will seek pardon to the president, and he agreed, a high official of the central jail said. 

Majed was read out the death warrant after it had reached the prison, Abrar Hossain added.

A specialised police unit overnight arrested the suspended captain Abdul Majed, who had been on the run for long 23 years, from Mirpur in the capital early Tuesday.

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. Meanwhile, another killer, Aziz Pasha, died in Zimbabwe in 2001.

Abdul Majed is from Batamara village at Borhanuddin upazila of Bhola district. His properties in his village have already been confiscated by the district administration.

BDST: 1320 HRS, APR 09, 2020
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