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Col Nazmul Huda murder
Daughter files case after 47 years accusing Zia as mastermind for giving order
UNBPublished: 11 May 2023, 12: 43
BNP founder Ziaur RahmanPortrait: Masuk Helal
After 47 years, a murder case was filed with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police station in the capital on Wednesday night in connection with the killing of Colonel Khandkar Nazmul Huda Bir Bikrom.
Nahid Izhar Khan, MP, daughter of late Col Khandkar Nazmul Huda, filed the case accusing Major (retd) Abdul Jalil of then 10 East Bengal Regiment and 20-25 unidentified people.
She also mentioned the name of BNP founder Ziaur Rahman as the mastermind for giving order to kill him in her First Information Report (FIR).
Officer-in-charge (OC) of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police station Utpal Kumar Barua told reporters that Colonel Nazmul Huda's daughter filed the case as a plaintiff. In the FIR, she alleged that on the orders of Ziaur Rahman, three army officers including Col Khandkar Nazmul Huda Bir Bikrom were killed. Retired Major Abdul Jalil along with 25 unnamed people has been named as accused in the case, the OC said.
“We are investigating into the allegation of the case,” the OC added.
According to the FIR, the plaintiff mentioned that she was only 5 and her elder brother was 8, on 7 November 1975, when her father was killed by the members of the Bangladesh Army in the compound of Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban in Dhaka while serving as Commander of 72 Special Brigade of the Bangladesh Army in Rangpur.
Two sector commanders-- Major General Khaled Mosharraf Bir-Uttam and Lt Col ATM Haider Bir-Uttam—were also killed during the incident, she said.
On 26 March 1971, Col Nazmul Huda joined the liberation war and directly participated in the liberation war. He was the Boyra sub-sector commander under Sector 8 of Jashore. Pakistan Army was defeated in the famous Tank Battle of Garibpur, Battle of Chowagacha under his direct command.
Jashore became the first district of Bangladesh to be liberated under the leadership of Col Nazmul Huda on 6th December in 1971.
Daughter files case after 47 years accusing Zia as mastermind for giving order
After 47 years, a murder case was filed with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police station in the capital on Wednesday night in connection with the killing of Colonel Khandkar Nazmul Huda Bir Bikrom
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Case filed over killings of Khaled Mosharraf, two other freedom fighters after 48 years
The daughter of one of the slain army officers and decorated freedom fighters alleges Zia and Taher ordered the killings
Senior Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 11 May 2023, 07:19 AM
Updated : 11 May 2023, 07:19 AM
Police have opened an investigation into the killings of Major General Khaled Mosharraf and two other freedom fighters, 48 years after their deaths, in a historically fraught episode that ties the late BNP founder Ziaur Rahman.
Ruling party MP Naheed Ezaher Khan, the daughter of Colonel Khandekar Najmul Huda who was killed along with Khaled Mosharraf and another freedom fighter, has filed a case over the incident that occurred amid a flurry of coups and counter-coups after the assassination of Bangladesh’s first president, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, in 1975.
The case was filed with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station on Wednesday night, Azimul Haque, a deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, said on Thursday.
The third army officer killed in the incident was Lieutenant Col ATM Haider. All three were decorated freedom fighters. Khaled was the commander of Sector 2 during the 1971 Liberation War. Najmul was working as the commander of the army’s 72 Brigade at the time of the murder.
Naheed alleged in the case that a group of 20-25 rogue army officers killed her father, Khaled and Haider in the parliament building area on Nov 7, 1975 on orders from the then army chief Ziaur Rahman and Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal leader Col Abu Taher.
She has named former Major Abdul Jalil of the 10 East Bengal Regiment in the case as he is the only person alive among those allegedly involved in the incident.
Bangladesh plunged into chaos after the massacre of Bangabandhu’s family on Aug 15, 1975, as Khandakar Mushtaque Ahmed took charge. Amid the turmoil, Khaled led a coup after the killings of four national leaders in jail on Nov 3. Zia was put under house arrest at the time.
Col Taher, who left the army, headed a counter-coup on Nov 7. Zia was then freed, while Khaled and his associates were killed.
The BNP, founded by Zia, observes Nov 7 as “Revolution and Solidarity Day”. Taher’s party observes it as “Sepoy-People’s Uprising Day” while the Awami League calls it “Freedom Fighter and Soldier Killing Day”.
Zia, who ascended to the position as a de-facto leader as a result of the conspiracy over the killing of Bangabandhu and took over the presidency in 1977, was assassinated in 1981 in Chattogram in a coup by some of his colleagues in the army.
The families of Khaled, Najmul and Haider had long been demanding justice for them.
HT Imam, the late adviser to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, said in 2017 that the trial of the killers was still possible after so many years.