The Mujib killers
15 years, 3 months ago

The Mujib killers

The Hindu  

OF the 12 former military officers convicted in the Bangabandhu murder case, five are already in custody; one has died in exile; and the rest are reportedly holed up in the United States, Libya, Canada, Pakistan and Kenya. Meanwhile, informed sources told Frontline that the process for the execution of the death sentences of the five death-row convicts, who had appealed against a lower court verdict, had already begun as the jail authorities had received a copy of the Appellate Divisions verdict. The five death-row convicts may file applications with the Appellate Division seeking revision of its verdict. Official sources said the death sentences of the five former officers might be executed by December or early January. Chief government prosecutor Anisul Haq said the death sentences of six convicts in exile Lieutenant Colonel Khandaker Abdur Rashid, Lieutenant Colonel Shariful Haque Dalim, Lieutenant Colonel Nur Chowdhury, Lieutenant Colonel A.M. Rashed Chowdhury, Captain Abdul Mazed and Risalder Moslehuddin Khan were ready for execution as they did not file any petition seeking a permission to appeal against the High Court verdict, which upheld their sentences.

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Two more Indians executed in UAE for murder after Shahzadi Khan. Here’s what we know
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3 weeks, 2 days ago

Two more Indians executed in UAE for murder after Shahzadi Khan. Here’s what we know

Live Mint  

Days after Indian national Shahzadi Khan was executed in the United Arab Emirates, two more Indians on death row, both from Kerala, who were convicted of murder, have been executed. “The Embassy provided all possible consular and legal assistance, including sending mercy petitions and pardon requests to the Government of the UAE for the Indian nationals. The UAE authorities informed …

Two Indian nationals executed in UAE for murders, Centre informs families
3 weeks, 3 days ago

Two Indian nationals executed in UAE for murders, Centre informs families

India TV News  

Two Indian nationals executed in UAE for murders, Centre informs families Two Kerala natives, who were convicted in murder cases and facing death sentences, have been executed in UAE. The Ministry of External Affairs have identified them as Muhammed Rinash A and Muraleedharan P V. Two Kerala natives, who were convicted in murder cases and facing death sentences, have been …

Executioner who hanged some of Bangladesh’s most notorious serial killers – and politicians – dies
9 months ago

Executioner who hanged some of Bangladesh’s most notorious serial killers – and politicians – dies

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Bangladesh's deadliest executioner, who hanged …

Judicial inquiry ordered into death of Mukhtar Ansari
1 year ago

Judicial inquiry ordered into death of Mukhtar Ansari

The Hindu  

The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Banda district in Uttar Pradesh on Friday ordered a judicial inquiry into the death of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari who died in Banda on Thursday. Ms. Singh, who is the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, will lead a three-member team entrusted to conduct the magisterial investigation into the death of the five-time former MLA. Ansari died of …

Bangladesh executes ex-Army officer for assassinating Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
4 years, 11 months ago

Bangladesh executes ex-Army officer for assassinating Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

The Hindu  

Bangladesh has executed a former military captain for his involvement in the 1975 coup in which the country’s founder Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated, nearly four-and-a-half decades after the massacre. Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal earlier told PTI that the presidential decision meant there was no bar in executing the convict, who was arrested in a surprise development earlier …

Arrest of Mujib killer bodes well for India-Bangladesh ties
4 years, 11 months ago

Arrest of Mujib killer bodes well for India-Bangladesh ties

The Hindu  

The unexpected return of a high-value fugitive from India to Bangladesh indicates the revival of positive sentiments in India-Bangladesh ties, diplomatic sources have acknowledged. Captain Abdul Majed, one of the members of the military hit squad that killed Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his immediate family in 1975, was arrested on Tuesday at a bus stop in Dhaka. Officials …

Mujibur Rahman’s killer faces the gallows after 45 years
4 years, 11 months ago

Mujibur Rahman’s killer faces the gallows after 45 years

The Hindu  

A Bangladesh military captain arrested after nearly 25 years on the run over the assassination of the country’s founding leader will be executed, officials said Wednesday. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, father of current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was killed along with most of his family in a military coup on August 15, 1975, nearly four years after he led Bangladesh to …

Dhaka: Death warrant issued against retd captain for assassinating Bangabandhu
4 years, 11 months ago

Dhaka: Death warrant issued against retd captain for assassinating Bangabandhu

India Today  

A Bangladeshi court on Wednesday issued a death warrant against a former military captain for his involvement in the 1975 coup in which the country's founder Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated. Dhaka's District and Sessions Judge Helaluddin Choudhury issued the death warrant with Supreme Court's special permission during the ongoing COVID-19 holiday, public prosecutor Abdulah Abu told reporters. The …

Bangladesh court sentences 5 ex-cops to death for killing
5 years, 2 months ago

Bangladesh court sentences 5 ex-cops to death for killing

Associated Press  

DHAKA,Bangladesh — A Bangladesh court sentenced five former police officials to death Monday for opening fire on a motorcade of then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina 31 years ago, killing 24 of her supporters during an anti-government rally. Judge Mohammed Ismail Hossain in southeastern Bangladesh’s Chittagong city announced the verdict with four defendants present, said prosecution lawyer Shibu Prakash Biswas. On …

Bangladesh executes HuJI chief Mufti Abdul Hannan, aides for 2004 shrine attack
7 years, 11 months ago

Bangladesh executes HuJI chief Mufti Abdul Hannan, aides for 2004 shrine attack

Firstpost  

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Bangladesh: Three Islamists get death penalty, five others get life for involvement in 1971 war crimes
8 years, 8 months ago

Bangladesh: Three Islamists get death penalty, five others get life for involvement in 1971 war crimes

Firstpost  

Three Islamists were handed down the death penalty while five others were given life imprisonment by a special tribunal in Bangladesh for committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 liberation war with Pakistan Dhaka: Three Islamists were handed down the death penalty while five others were given life imprisonment by a special tribunal in Bangladesh for committing crimes against humanity …

Jamaat-e-Islami chief to be executed tonight: Bangladesh minister
8 years, 10 months ago

Jamaat-e-Islami chief to be executed tonight: Bangladesh minister

India TV News  

Jamaat-e-Islami chief to be executed tonight: Bangladesh minister Dhaka: Fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami will be executed tonight after he refused to seek presidential clemency for war crimes committed during Bangladesh's 1971 Liberation War against Pakistan, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Dhaka: Fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami will be executed tonight after he refused to seek presidential clemency for …

Bangladesh SC upholds Islamist leader Motiur Rahman’s death sentence
8 years, 10 months ago

Bangladesh SC upholds Islamist leader Motiur Rahman’s death sentence

India TV News  

Dhaka:Top leader of Bangladesh's fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami Motiur Rahman Nizami today faced a major setback after the Supreme Court rejected his final plea to review his death sentence it earlier handed down over war crimes during the 1971 Liberation War with Pakistan. Today's final verdict comes two days after the bench wrapped up hearing Nizami's petition, seeking a review of the …

Bangladesh Blogger Murder: Death Penalty for Two Students
9 years, 2 months ago

Bangladesh Blogger Murder: Death Penalty for Two Students

The Quint  

Two students were, on Friday, awarded death penalty and six persons, including outlawed Ansarullah Bangla Team chief, received various jail terms by a Bangladesh court for killing secular blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider, nearly three years after he was hacked to death near his home in Dhaka. The judge sentenced former private university students Md Faisal Bin Nayem alias Dweep and …

Death sought for 8 convicts in 7/11 case
9 years, 6 months ago

Death sought for 8 convicts in 7/11 case

The Hindu  

Terming the perpetrators of the July 11, 2006, Mumbai train blasts “merchants of death,” the prosecution on Wednesday sought death penalty for eight of the 12 convicts in the case and life term for the remaining four. The eight persons for whom the prosecution sought death include five bomb planters — Kamal Ansari, Faisal Shaikh, Ehtesham Siddiqui, Naveed Khan and …

Convict in Musharraf assassination attempt case executed
10 years, 2 months ago

Convict in Musharraf assassination attempt case executed

India TV News  

Islamabad: A former Pakistan Air Force junior technician, convicted in former president Pervez Musharraf assassination attempt case, was executed Wednesday, a media report said. The last death sentence at the Peshawar Central Prison was carried out June 6, 2006, when a condemned prisoner, Mawas Khan of Sufaid Sung area in Peshawar, was hanged to death. In the first assassination attempt …

Pakistan executes two militants
10 years, 3 months ago

Pakistan executes two militants

The Hindu  

Pakistan on Friday executed two men convicted for attacks on Army headquarters and the former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, days after the country lifted its moratorium on the death penalty. The two are among 17 terrorists who will be executed in the first phase after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ended self-imposed moratorium in the wake of Tuesday’s Peshawar school massacre. …

Bangladesh clears execution of opposition leader
11 years, 3 months ago

Bangladesh clears execution of opposition leader

India TV News  

Authorities have denied the allegations. It's not about any revenge but for justice,” Munier told The Associated Press immediately after the decision came from the Supreme Court. Carrying out the execution would complicate an already critical political situation in Bangladesh, where the opposition has carried out violent protests for weeks to back a demand for an independent caretaker government to …

Top Bangladesh Islamist sentenced to death by war tribunal
11 years, 8 months ago

Top Bangladesh Islamist sentenced to death by war tribunal

Live Mint  

Dhaka: Bangladesh’s war crimes tribunal gave its second high-profile verdict in three days, sentencing a top leader of an Islamic party to death as it presses ahead with convictions that have raised political tension. add_main_imageJudges found Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, 65, guilty on five charges including murder, rape and looting during the nation’s struggle for freedom from …

10 Islamist militants get death penalty in Bangladesh
11 years, 9 months ago

10 Islamist militants get death penalty in Bangladesh

India TV News  

Dhaka, Jun 20 : Ten militants of a banned Bangladeshi Islamist outfit were sentenced to death today by a fast-track court here after they were found guilty of involvement in a deadly suicide bombing in 2005 that claimed eight lives. The court handed down death penalty to 10 operatives of the banned Islamist outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh for the 2005 …

Gaddafi Had Sought Pardon For Killers Of Mujib: Hasina
13 years, 7 months ago

Gaddafi Had Sought Pardon For Killers Of Mujib: Hasina

India TV News  

Dhaka, August 28: Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had in 1996 rejected a plea from Muammar Gaddafi to pardon her father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's killers, who were given shelter by the now beleaguered Libyan leader. Addressing a meeting to commemorate the martyrdom of Sheikh Mujib, she said Gaddafi who is now witnessing his own downfall, in 1996 had written a …

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