Bangladesh
Bangladesh Rabi teacher Taher murder: Two accused to be hanged any day
Dhaka, 9 July 2023:Rajshahi Central Jail Authority has received a letter rejecting the death plea of two convicts sentenced in the Professor of Geology and Mining Department of Rajshahi University S. Taher Ahmed murder case.
This letter reached Rajshahi Central Jail by post last Wednesday. Senior Jail Superintendent of Rajshahi Central Jail Abdul Jallir confirmed this information.
He said that Mian Mohammad Mohiuddin and Jahangir Alam, who were sentenced to death about six months ago, had appealed to the President for life through the prison authorities. In the last week of June, the President rejected their plea for mercy.
But that letter reached Rajshahi jail on Wednesday. Now we are preparing to take necessary action as per Kara Act.
According to the Jail Code, execution is carried out on any day between 21 days and 28 days after receiving the letter. The letter of rejection of the petition for mercy reached the Rajshahi Central Jail last Wednesday. But there are various processes before execution. Jail authorities want to start those processes now according to Jail Code. Both the accused who were sentenced to death have been kept in the condemned cell.
Meanwhile, Professor Taher's wife and their two children demanded the speedy execution of the verdict.
It should be noted that on February 1, 2006, Professor Taher Ahmed disappeared from the West Para residential quarter of Rajshahi University teachers. He lived alone in that house. Caretaker Jahangir Alam looked after him.
On February 2 this year, the melted body of Professor S. Taher Ahmed was recovered from the manhole behind the house. On February 3, his son Sanjid Alvi Ahmed filed a murder case against unknown persons at Rajshahi's Motihar police station.
Meanwhile, on the basis of a GD made by Professor Taher, the police arrested eight people, including Mia Mohammad Mohiuddin, a teacher of Geology and Mining Department, Mahbubul Alam Salehi, then president of Rajshahi University Branch Islami Chhatra Shibir, Jahangir Alam, caretaker of Basra. After that, three of the accused gave a confessional statement in the court under section 164.
In the deposition, they said that Professor Taher was the head of the academic committee of the department. Associate Professor Mia Mohammad Mohiuddin of the same department was seeking the committee's recommendation for promotion to the post of professor. But Professor Taher refused to give it. Originally angry at not being promoted, Mia planned to kill Mohiuddin.
