Executed war criminal Muhammad Kamaruzzaman has been buried at his ancestral home in Sherpur.
The Jamaat leader was hanged at 10:30pm Saturday for committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.
He was buried around 5am Sunday after a namaz-e-janaza in front of Bajitkhila Orphanage.
After Kamaruzzaman's execution, two ambulances – one carrying the body, two vans with 26 police members, and another with RAB personnel left the jail at 11:40pm for Sherpur.
Kamaruzzaman, 62, is the second war criminal to walk the gallows. His colleague and counterpart, another assistant secretary general of Jamaat, Abdul Quader Molla, was executed on December 12, 2013 following the legal process. Molla had not sought clemency.
The Appellate Division had commuted the death penalty of another Jamaat leader, Delawar Hossain Sayedee, to life-term imprisonment. It is now holding hearings in two other appeals cases, filed by Jamaat leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujaheed and BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury.
Since Wednesday, war criminal Kamaruzzaman had taken three days to decide whether to seek presidential clemency. On that day, an Appellate Division order rejecting his review petition was communicated to him.
Kamaruzzaman trial timeline
At noon yesterday, the Home Ministry issued an order to execute the death row convict as he finally refused to seek mercy.
Family members of the Jamaat leader met him at the jail around 4:30pm yesterday, for the last time. They earlier visited the convict on April 6, when the Appellate Division scrapped his review petition.
Kamaruzzaman was arrested on July 29, 2010 on the charge of hurting religious sentiment. He was shown arrested in the war crimes case on October 2 the same year, and the trial began on July 2, 2012.
