The elder son of Lakshmipur municipality mayor Abu Taher, also a leader of ruling Bangladesh Awami League, who got his death sentence pardoned and life imprisonment commuted to 10 years by the president in separate murder cases, was released from jail on Tuesday.
AHM Aftab Uddin Biplob was freed from the jail in the morning after he served his jail terms in two cases, said Jailer of Lakshmipur Jail M Shah Alam.
Sources said, after being freed from the jail, he went to his house in Lakshmipur town and posted pictures with family members on face book.
On September 18, 2000, Advocate Nurul Islam, the then organising secretary of Lakshmipur BNP, was abducted and hacked to death by Biplob and his associates.
The Divisional Speedy Trial Tribunal of Chittagong on December 9, 2003, sentenced five people, including Biplob, to death and nine others to life imprisonment in the case.
Biplob was awarded life imprisonment in both BNP activist Kamal murder case of 2001 and Shibir man Mohsin killing case of 2000.
After absconding for over 10 years, Biplob surrendered before a court on April 6, 2011.
Later, his father filed mercy petitions with then President Zillur Rahman.
In July of the year, the President pardoned him in the Nurul Islam murder case.
In February, 2012, the President commuted Biplob's life imprisonment in the Kamal and Mohsin killing cases to 10 years.