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Supreme Court upholds death penalties of Bangabandhu murder trial convicts
November 19,2009 - After 34 years of the brutal killings of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members, the Appellate Division of Supreme Court (SC), in its final judgment on Thursday, awarded death sentences to 12 people in the murder case. The condemned were Lt Col (dismissed) Syed Farooq-ur Rahman, Lt Col (retd) Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Lt Col (retd) Muhiuddin Ahmed, Lt Col (retd) AKM Mahiuddin Ahmed, Maj (retd) Bazlul Huda, Lt Col (retd) Khandaker Abdur Rashid, Maj (retd) Shariful Haque Dalim, Lt Col (retd) AM Rashed Chowdhury, Lt Col (retd) SHMB Noor Chowdhury, Lt Col (retd) Md Abdul Aziz Pasha, Capt (retd) Abdul Mazed, and Risaldar (retd) Moslemuddin.
The Supreme Court rejected appeals of five men convicted of killing Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, in a landmark verdict Thursday. After hearing for 29 days the appeals filed by five condemned convicts in the case challenging their convictions and sentences, a special bench of the SC Appellate Division comprising Justice Md Tafazzul Islam, Justice Md Abdul Aziz, Justice BK Das, Justice Md Muzammel Hossain, and Justice SK Sinha delivered the verdict. Senior judge of the bench Tafazzal Islam delivered the verdict at the heavily guarded crowded courtroom rejecting the appeals of the five of the convicts. In line with the judgment that took 15 minutes to be delivered all the 12 ex-army officers who were earlier handed down the capital punishment would now have to walk to gallows. Islam said the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court upheld the judgment of the High Court as it found "no inconsistency" in the verdict.
Earlier on November 8, 1998, Dhaka Sessions Judge Golam Rasul handed down death sentences to 15 of the 20 defendants in the case.
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