Dhaka, January 18: The mercy petition of three of the five ex-Army officers, on death row for the killing of Bangladesh founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, have been rejected by President Zillur Rahman.
?? “The president has rejected their mercy petitions,” a senior Bangabhaban presidential palace official told.
?? He said the presidential decision came immediately after the petitions of ex-lieutenant colonels A K M Mohiuddin (lancer), Mohiuddin Ahmed (artillery) and ex-major Bazlul Huda reached the presidential palace through the home ministry, law ministry and the prime minister’s office last evening.
?? Two other convicts, ex-lieutenant colonels Syed Faruq Rahman and Sultan Shahriar Khan, are yet to file the clemency petitions.
Their lawyers said they might consider seeking presidential mercy only after they are exhausted with the last legal process for the review of the Supreme Court verdict by the apex court itself.
—Agencies