Condemned prisoner ex-military officer AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed submitted an application to the Supreme Court (SC), through the jail authority, seeking to appeal to overturn his capital punishment in the Bangabandhu murder case, reports UNB.
"A petition for condoning an inordinate delay in filing the jail appeal has also been enclosed with the application," Dhaka Central Jail authority source said Sunday, without elaborating.
Meanwhile, office of the registrar of the Supreme Court received the application Sunday afternoon, court sources said.
He is one of the 12 former army officers sentenced to death for assassinating Bangladesh's founding father and first president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in a bloody coup on August 15, 1975.
On this June 18, after nine years of fugitive life in the USA, Mohiuddin was brought back home from Los Angeles.
He was deported by the US Homeland Security after a district court in California turned down his appeal.
Mohiuddin (60), a major at the time of the coup when most members of Sheikh Mujib's family were killed and his government toppled, was tried in absentia and sentenced to death in 1998 along with the rest.
All of the accused had left Bangladesh after the coup and were absorbed in Bangladesh missions abroad, and their trial had a belated start after a regime change in Bangladesh politics with Awami League coming back to power in 1996.
Mohiuddin appeals to SC to overturn verdict
FE Team | Published: June 25, 2007 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00
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