Finally, the convicted war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami was hanged in the wee hours of Wednesday for the heinous crimes he had committed against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971 to dismiss Bangalees hope for independence.

 

The 71-year-old Ameer of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami was hanged by the rope inside Dhaka Central Jail at 11:55pm, Jahangir Kabir, superintendent of the prison, said. The body was taken down from the noose at 12:10am.

District’s civil surgeon Abdul Malek Mridha checked his pulse to confirm the death.

Acting Inspector General (Prisons) Col Iqbal Hasan, Civil Surgeon Abdul Malek Mridha, deputy commissioner of Dhaka Mohammad Salauddin and Jail Jahangir Kabir were present during the execution.

Escorted by law enforcers, a hearse carrying the body of executed war criminal started for his village home at Manmathpur in Santhia upazila of Pabna around 1:31 am. He will be buried at his village graveyard.

 

Earlier on Tuesday, the family members of death row war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami entered into the Dhaka Central Jail to meet him.

 

According to media reports a total of five family members have entered into the jail around 7.45pm to meet the death row war criminal.

 

On the night of May 9, the final review verdict of Supreme Court (SC) pronounced against Motiur Rahman Nizami has been read out to Nizami at Dhaka Central Jail.

 

The Dhaka Central Jail authorities have read out the verdict around 8.00pm on that night.

 

Earlier the judges concerned signed on review verdict of condemned war criminal and Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami Monday (yesterday).

 

Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, Justice Nazmun Ara Sultana and Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain and Justice Hasan Foez Siddique have signed the review verdict.

 

The verdict copy was first sent to the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) and then forwarded to the jail authorities for execution processes.

 

On May 5, the Supreme Court (SC) rejected a petition filed by the condemned war criminal to review his death sentence.

 

A four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha pronounced the verdict on Thursday (May 5).