RANGPUR PAEDOPHILE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR THE 2016 RAPE AND MURDER OF 8-YEAR-OLD CHILD (DECEMBER 1, 2020)

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society. – Clint Eastwood 

            That quote from Clint Eastwood is so correct. On this date, December 1, 2020, a Rangpur paedophile, Riyad Pradhan was sentenced to death for the 2016 rape and murder of eight-year-old Tanjila Khatun Chumki. He does not deserve to live and he should be hanged together with the Pakistani Paedophile, Sohail Ayaz.

  

Rangpur man gets death penalty for 2016 rape, murder of 8-yr-old child

Liakat Ali Badal, Rangpur

Published at 04:32 pm December 1st, 2020

Women and Children and Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Mostafa Pavel Raihan handed down the verdict Tuesday afternoon, with the death row convict Riyad Pradhan present at the dock.

State Prosecutor Adv Kawsar Ali confirmed the matter to Dhaka Tribune while expressing satisfaction and demanding speedy execution of the verdict.

He said the verdict in the 2016 case was declared in accordance with article 9(2) of the Women and Children Repression Prevention (Amended) Act 2003, which states if a woman or child dies as a result of rape or any other misconduct following rape, the person convicted, shall be punishable by death or life imprisonment and an additional fine of no less than Tk1 lakh.

According to court sources, the victim Tanjila Khatun Chumki, daughter of Shajahan Ali of Ramnathpur village in Pirgonj upazila of Rangpur, was a first-grader at local government primary school.

On June 14, 2016, the day of the incident, Chumki was playing next to her house. At that time, Riyad Pradhan (then 20 years old), son of neighbour Momin Pradhan, lured the child back to his house and raped her there.

When the child screamed for help, Riyad suffocated her to death. Then with the help of his housemaid Dhali Begum (then 50), he stuffed the body inside a sack and buried it under the bed in his mud hut.

Meanwhile, as night approached and the girl did not return home, her family members began to worry. Failing to find her anywhere, the girl’s family lodged a General Diary (GD) with Pirgonj police station.

Informed, Pirgonj police arrested Riyad and recovered Chumki's body from under the bed of the mud hut based on his primary confession.

  

God takes no pleasure in the death of sinners, so as to delight simply in their death; rather, he delights to magnify his justice by inflicting the punishment which their iniquities have deserved. A righteous judge who takes no pleasure in condemning a criminal, may yet justly command him to be executed so that law and justice may be satisfied, even though it is in his power to procure him a reprieve. – George Whitefield, Letter to Wesley, Bethesda in Georgia, Dec. 24, 1740

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After an investigation into the incident, the investigating officer filed a charge sheet in the court in December that year.

“After four years, the court announced the verdict after hearing testimonies of 17 witnesses. In addition to the death sentence, the judge also fined the convict with Tk1 lakh, which is to go to the victim’s family as compensation,” said the state prosecutor.

Meanwhile, the court acquitted the other accused, housemaid Dhali Begum, finding the allegations against her to be untrue, he added.

In response to the verdict, the mother of the slain child, Asiya Begum, said she was happy with the verdict. “When the verdict is finally executed, only then will my daughter's soul find peace.”

Meanwhile, the criminal defence lawyer Adv Feroz Ahmed said they didn’t get justice in the verdict and would file an appeal with the High Court.

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Police escort the rape convict of a court premise in Rangpur Tuesday, December 1, 2020 Dhaka Tribune

Rapist to die for killing minor girl after rape in Rangpur

Published: Tuesday, 1 December, 2020 at 8:05 PM  C

A court in Rangpur on Tuesday sentenced a youth to death for killing a minor schoolgirl after rape at village Ramnathpur under Pirganj upazila in the district four years ago.

Judge of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-3 of Rangpur, Mostafa Pavel Raihan handed down the verdict in the courtroom in presence of the convict.

The court also fined the convict Tk 1 lakh and acquitted another accused woman in the case as the charges brought against her were not proved.

The prosecution said the convict is Riyadh Prodhan, 24, son of Momin Prodhan of village Ramnathpur.

The victim was eight-year-old Tanjila Khatun Chumki, daughter of day-labourer Shajahan Ali of the village. She was a student of class one at local Duramithipur Government Primary School.

Before the verdict was pronounced, a 46-page copy of the verdict was displayed on a projector screen outside the judge's courtroom where an overflowing crowd of curious people were present.

Additional Public Prosecutor of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-3 of Rangpur Advocate Mafzia Hasan Dibamani told reporters that the victim was playing in a garden in the village in the afternoon on June 14, 2016.

At that time, Riyadh Prodhan tactfully took the child to his house and forcibly raped her.

When the child screamed at that time, rapist Riyadh suffocated her to death.

Later, with the help of their maid Dolly Begum, 50, Riyadh filled the body in a cement bag and buried it beneath his bedroom.

Three days later on June 17, 2016, Pirganj police recovered Chumki's body, arrested Riyadh and a case was filed in this connection with Pirganj police station.

Although Dolly Begum fled after the incident, police later arrested her from Dhaka.

After investigating into the case, its investigation officer sub-inspector Nazir Hossain of Pirganj police station submitted charge sheets against Riyadh and Dolly before the court on December 12, 2016.

After examining witnesses of the case, the court found Riyadh guilty beyond any doubt and pronounced capital punishment against him on Tuesday.

Advocate Mafzia Hasan Dibamani expressed satisfaction over the verdict and demanded speedy execution of the death sentence.

Senior lawyer Kazi Mahfuzul Islam defended the accused side and said that there was an opportunity to appeal to the higher court after receiving a full copy of the verdict.

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“Pro lifers go to hell, take cardinal pell as well”

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[PHOTO SOURCE: https://quadrant.org.au/chapter-and-verse-on-the-pell-lynching/]

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PAKISTANI PEDOPHILE SOHAIL AYAZ SENTENCED TO DEATH IN PAKISTAN (NOVEMBER 18, 2020)

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THE HANGING OF ABDUL MAJED

On this date, April 12, 2020, Abdul Majed, a former Bangladesh Army officer who was convicted for his role in the 1975 Jail Killing following the Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh, was executed by hanging at 12:01am. Despite the COVID-19 crisis, the Bangladeshi Judicial did not gave any excuse and the killer executed. 

Police escort Capt (retd) Abdul Majed at a Dhaka court on Tuesday, April 7, 2020 Dhaka Tribune

[PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2020/04/12/bangabandhu-killer-majed-hanged]

Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has been executed by Captain Abdul Majed, directly involved in the murder of his family. His hanging was executed at Dhaka Central Jail at Keraniganj at around 12:00 pm tonight. Civil surgeons, police and prison officials were present during the night operation.

Sources said the Home Ministry ordered the afternoon to schedule time for the execution of Majed. After that, three executioners led by the executioner Shajahan played a role in the execution. After receiving the Interior Ministry's order, the jail authorities handed over the weight of Abdul Majed to the brick sack. Earlier, Abdul Majed was last seen with his relatives on Friday evening. Majed's wife Saleha Begum, Shalak and uncle's father-in-law met five members of the family at Dhaka Central Jail. They were called by the authorities.

The funeral procession started at the new hanging stage at Dhaka Central Jail, located at Keraniganj, through Majd's funeral.

INTERNET SOURCE: https://engnews24h.com/the-execution-of-bangabandhus-murderer-majed-is-effective-2/

Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has been executed by Captain Abdul Majed, directly involved in the murder of his family. His hanging was executed at Dhaka Central Jail at Keraniganj at around 12:00 pm tonight. Civil surgeons, police and prison officials were present during the night operation.

[PHOTO SOURCE: https://engnews24h.com/the-execution-of-bangabandhus-murderer-majed-is-effective-2/]

08:01 PM, April 11, 2020 / LAST MODIFIED: 12:39 AM, April 12, 2020

Bangabandhu’s killer Majed hanged

The execution of Captain Abdul Majed, convicted killer of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members, was carried out at Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj at 12:01 am today. 

Mahbubul Islam, jailer of Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj, confirmed to The Daily Star at 12:03am.

On Friday, some family members of Abdul Majed met him at Dhaka Central Jail where he had been kept in solitary confinement on death row.

Earlier on Thursday, President Abdul Hamid rejected Majed's petition for presidential clemency, filed by the convict's lawyer Mosharraf Hossain Kajol on April 8.

Captain Majed was arrested on April 7 from Gabtoli in the wee hours, after decades of remaining absconding.

He was nabbed by the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit of the police.

"Majed said he arrived in the country on March 15 or 16 from Kolkata. He claimed that he was hiding there for about 23 years," Hemayet Uddin Khan, assistant public prosecutor, told The Daily Star. 

The Supreme Court on November 19, 2009, upheld the death sentences of Abdul Majed and 11 other self-confessed killers of Bangabandhu. Of them, five were executed on January 27, 2010.

They were Syed Farooq Rahman, Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Bazlul Huda, AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed and Mohiuddin Ahmed.

Six other convicts, including Abdul Majed remained at large. The other fugitive killers are sacked Lt Col Khandaker Abdur Rashid, SHBM Noor Chowdhury, Shariful Haque Dalim, Rashed Chowdhury, and Risaldar Moslehuddin.

Another condemned killer, Aziz Pasha, died in Zimbabwe in June, 2001.

Captain Majed was also found guilty and sentenced for life in the jail killing case, involving the murder of former Prime Minister Tajuddin Ahmed and three other imprisoned Awami League leaders.

INTERNET SOURCE: https://www.thedailystar.net/country/news/bangabandhus-killer-majed-be-hanged-tonight-ig-prisons-1891942

  

God takes no pleasure in the death of sinners, so as to delight simply in their death; rather, he delights to magnify his justice by inflicting the punishment which their iniquities have deserved. A righteous judge who takes no pleasure in condemning a criminal, may yet justly command him to be executed so that law and justice may be satisfied, even though it is in his power to procure him a reprieve. – George Whitefield, Letter to Wesley, Bethesda in Georgia, Dec. 24, 1740

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Bangabandhu’s killer Majed hanged

Arifur Rahman Rabbi and Hasan Al Javed

Published at 12:17 am April 12th, 2020

A fugitive for over 20 years, Majed was arrested on Tuesday

Abdul Majed, one of the convicts in the killing of Bangladesh’s founding father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, has been executed at the Dhaka Central Jail.

“The convict was hanged at 12:01am Sunday,” Inspector General (Prisons) Brigadier General AKM Mustafa Kamal Pasha said.

He said other concerned officials including a magistrate, police representatives witnessed the execution as required by the law.

"This was the first case of the execution since Dhaka Central Jail was relocated in Keraniganj," he added.

Defying the coronavirus restriction, a number of people emerged in front of the jail at midnight.

Earlier, the prison authorities called Majed’s wife for a final visit as per the last wish of the death-row convict.

His body will be taken to Bhola for burial today although two MPs, including a former Chhatra League leader from Bhola have said they will not let that happen in their district.

After the execution, Law Minister Anisul Huq told the Dhaka Tribune: “We have pledged to the people that we will make sure the judgement that has been delivered by all the courts of the country, will be properly implemented and executed and I think for the 6th one we have been able to do it and we will continue till we have completed the implementation of the judgement.”

There are five other killers of Bangabandhu and his family who are on the run.

Earlier on Friday, four family members, that did not include the convict’s wife, met him at prison.

Majed’s death sentence was executed within four days after President Abdul Hamid turned down his clemency plea on Wednesday.

The same day, the Dhaka District and Sessions Judge’s court issued the death warrant for Majed, who was arrested in Dhaka on April 7.

The arrest

After being on the run for over 20 years, Majed, a sacked Bangladesh Army officer who later served in different government positions, was arrested in the early hours of Tuesday in Dhaka.

One of the 12 assassins awarded the death penalty for the 1975 killings, Majed had been hiding in Libya and Pakistan before moving to neighbouring India and residing there for the last about two decades.

Majed crossed over into Bangladesh on March 15 or 16 through the border in Mymensingh after the coronavirus pandemic unfolded.

The sacked army officer, who later served in different government positions, including at Bangladesh missions abroad, fled the country after the Awami League assumed office in 1996.

Life as a fugitive 

During initial interrogation, Majed said he had been living in neighbouring India for more than 20 years.

After going to India in 1996, he travelled to Libya and then Pakistan, before returning to India, where he had been living in different states. But for the last three to four years he had been living in Kolkata and was in touch with his family in Bangladesh.

Majed, who hails from the southern district of Bhola, was also involved in the murder of the four national leaders in Dhaka Central Jail on November 3, 1975, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said after his arrest.

He then worked at Bangabhaban, before leaving Bangladesh the same year, along with the other army officers involved in the assassination, for Libya.

Majed was then appointed to the Bangladesh embassy in Senegal by military ruler Ziaur Rahman.

In 1980, he was appointed to the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) with the rank and status of a deputy secretary. He was subsequently promoted as secretary and served as the director of Department of Youth Development and Department of National Savings.

Majed went into hiding after the Awami League won the national elections in 1996.

Another five killers still at large

The architect of Bangladesh’s independence, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was killed along with most of his family members at his home. His daughters, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana, survived as they were abroad at the time.

The investigation into the assassinations was stopped by an Indemnity Ordinance, which saved the self-proclaimed killers from facing justice.

After the Awami League assumed office in 1996, the ordinance was abrogated, clearing the way for the killers to be brought to justice.

In 1998, a Dhaka sessions judge’s court found 15 people guilty and awarded the death penalty. In 2001, the High Court acquitted three but upheld the death sentences of 12.

In 2010, the Appellate Division upheld the verdict. The same year, five of the convicts — Syed Farooq Rahman, Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Bazlul Huda, AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed, and Mohiuddin Ahmed—were hanged.

Another convict Aziz Pasha died as a fugitive in Zimbabwe.

Majed was one of the six absconding convicts along with Abdur Rashid, Shariful Haque Dalim, M Rashed Chowdhury, SHMB Noor Chowdhury and Risaldar Moslemuddin until he was arrested and executed on Sunday.

INTERNET SOURCE: https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2020/04/12/bangabandhu-killer-majed-hanged

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