The body of top war criminal, also the former ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami, Ghulam Azam has been handed over to his family members.
Jailer of the Dhaka Central Jail Md Nesar Alam said: “The body of the Jammat leader was handed over to his family members around 7:30am after autopsy.”
According to the family members, his body has been taken to his Moghbazar residence.
Earlier, his lawyer Tajul Islam said: “We are looking for a mortuary to preserve the body since five of Ghulam Azam's sons reside abroad – four in the UK and another in Saudi Arabia. The janaza and burial will take place after their return.”
He said: “Ghulam had expressed his wish to be buried beside the grave of his father at the family graveyard on Moghbazar Kazi Office Lane.”
“Ghulam had also expressed his last wish that the janaza be conducted by incumbent Jamaat chief Motiur Rahman Nizami; if not possible, then Delawar Hossain Sayedee.”
Convicted war criminal Ghulam Azam, 92, finally managed to escape execution as he died naturally on Thursday night at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University.
Mastermind of many notorious war crimes of the 1971 Liberation War, the former Jamaat-e-Islami chief died of cardiac arrest at 10:10pm, BSMMU Director Brig Gen (retd) Abdul Majid Bhuiyan told reporters around 11:55pm coming out from the cardiac Intensive Care Unit.
Ghulam Azam had been on life support at the ICU. He had been suffering from several old age complications.
Before the announcement, there was confusion throughout the evening over his health condition. Senior Jail Superintendent of Dhaka Central Jail Md Forman Ali told reporters around 11:30pm that Ghulam was on life support.
However, the war criminal’s family members claimed that he had died around 9:30pm.
Ghulam Azam, the guru of anti-liberation Jamaat-e-Islami, became the symbol of all war criminals of 1971.
He was given 90-year imprisonment by a war crimes tribunal though he deserved death by hanging for committing heinous crimes, the trial court said in its judgement last year.