Risaldar Moslehuddin Khan, one of the five absconding assassins of the founder of Bangladesh Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975, has been picked up by security agencies in the North 24 Paraganas district, a senior intelligence official claimed. Mujibur Rahman is Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s father.
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Moslehuddin, who was awarded the death sentence in 2009, was arrested a “few days ago” from Bongaon, the officer said.
“Likely that he has been handed over already. But his identity confirmation from Bangladesh side is awaited,” the officer said amid confusion about his photos doing the rounds in closed messaging groups.
Moslehuddin — who was reported to have shot at among others the ‘Bangabandhu’ — leading to his death, is the second of the absconding assassins arrested in quick succession.
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He was reportedly selling unani and ayruvedic medicine in Bongaon. The other person nabbed a few weeks ago was Abdul Majed, a dismissed captain in Bangladesh Army who resided in India for many years. He was picked up recently and handed over to Bangladesh and was executed soon after.
Four more men who took part in the assassination — Abdur Rashid, Shariful Haque Dalim, M. Rashed Chowdhury — are yet to be nabbed. The Bangaldesh Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of Moslehuddin and 11 other self-confessed killers of the ‘Bangabandhu’ in 2009. Of them, five were executed on January 27, 2010 and one died in exile.
