A federal judge of California in the USA has stayed the deportation proceedings for seven days against Mohiuddin Ahmed, condemned convict in the Bangabandhu murder case, after fresh hearing of his case, reports UNB.
In his ruling Thursday, the judge charged the Department of Homeland Security with misleading Congress, particularly those members fighting the deportation order against the convicted killer.
American CBC news said much of what the judge meant that Mohiuddin's family, friends and those opposed to the death penalty in the US and Canada get a few more days to fight for the man's life.
However, Mohiuddin's status remains the same. He has been denied asylum status in the US and is in danger of being sent back to Dhaka.
Mohiuddin, then a Major of Bengal Lancer in 1975, has been sentenced to death in absentia in 1998 for his role in the August 15, 1975 coup.
Bangladesh's founder and first president Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, most of the members of his family and some security officers were killed on August 15. His two daughters - Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana survived the massacre as they were outside the country on that fateful night.
Media reports in US and Canada said the seven-day stay of proceedings is an opening that allows Mohiuddin's family in Nova Scotia and the Canadian government - if it has the will - to argue that Ahmed be sent to Canada instead as a refugee.
US court stays proceedings against Mohiuddin for 7 days
FE Team | Published: June 09, 2007 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00
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