Death penalty awarded war criminal Abdul Quader Molla was taken to Dhaka Central Jail in the capital’s Nazimuddin Road from a Gazipur jail yesterday evening, few hours after the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court released its full verdict, said jail officials.
But they could not confirm the causes behind the shifting of Quader Molla to Dhaka from the Gazipur jail as there was no schedule for producing him before the court.
Forman Ali, senior superintendent of Dhaka Central Jail, said war criminal Quader Molla was taken into the jail around 5:30pm from the Part-2 of the central jail in Kashimpur of Gazipur.
Asked, the senior jail superintendent said: “So far we have not received any directive in regards of producing him before any court.”
“As the higher authorities have sent him to Dhaka from Gazipur, he will stay here until further order,” said Forman Ali.
Replying to a query, the jail superintendent said: “Since we did not receive any copy of the order from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court regarding the death penalty of Quader Molla he is still a life-term awarded convict to us.”
“Quader Molla will be shifted to the condemned cell after receiving the court order on his death penalty,” said Jail Superintendent Forman Ali.
Officials in Gazipur jail said Quader Molla was sent to Dhaka Central Jail under escort of a huge contingent of law enforcers around 4:30pm.
But sources said the release of the full verdict is linked to sending Quader Molla from Gazipur to Dhaka.
Earlier on February 5, the International Crimes Tribunal 2 sentenced him lifetime imprisonment for crimes against humanity in 1971. But on September 17, the war criminal was convicted to death penalty by a bench of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court.
