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This section is not fully verified from public sources yet; the profile currently separates listing, court/law-enforcement records, and news reports.
Bangladesh
A former military-linked figure listed because public court reporting connects the person to the August-November 1975 assassination case record.
Aliases: Sultan Shahriar Rashid, Lt Col Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan
Included because public reporting records conviction, sentence, execution, fugitive, deceased, acquittal, or exemption posture in the 1975 assassination-related cases.
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This section is not fully verified from public sources yet; the profile currently separates listing, court/law-enforcement records, and news reports.
Bangladesh
Source-backed themes: military-linked role, 1975 political killings, criminal case posture, sentence status, execution or fugitive/deceased reporting where applicable.
The public-interest value is understanding urban crime, political patronage, law-enforcement operations, and court-process history.
Daily Star reporting says the Appellate Division rejected his Bangabandhu-case appeal and later reporting says he was executed in January 2010. Jail-killing reports describe earlier life-sentence and later acquittal/exemption posture in that separate case.
Future updates should add primary court judgment text, extradition status, review petitions, execution records, death records, acquittals, or corrections as separate evidence-layer records.
Killing · 1975-08-15
The historical killing of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and family members; the related criminal case's 12 upheld death sentences are modeled separately in the case record.
Explore incidentCourt reporting records the killing of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and family members at the Dhanmondi home in Dhaka.
Reporting records the killing of Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmad, M Mansur Ali, and AHM Qamaruzzaman inside Dhaka Central Jail.
Reporting says the Dhaka trial court first issued death sentences.
Reporting says the Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court imposed three death sentences and 12 life terms.
Reporting says the Appellate Division upheld death sentences for 12 convicts.
Reporting says the Appellate Division upheld three death sentences and eight life terms.
Bangabandhu murder case; trial verdict 1998, High Court 2001, Appellate Division 2009
The Appellate Division upheld death sentences for 12 convicts; reports describe executions in 2010 and 2020, several fugitives, and Aziz Pasha's death.
Jail killing case; filed 1975, trial verdict 2004, Appellate Division 2013
The Appellate Division upheld three death sentences and eight life terms; some people's jail-killing posture is distinct from execution or acquittal context in the Bangabandhu case.
Banglapedia · 19 Jun 2014
Banglapedia biography covering Khandaker Mushtaq Ahmed’s political career, Mujibnagar and cabinet roles, presidency after August 15, 1975, indemnity ordinance, removal from office, later Democratic League role, reported corruption convictions, and death.
Supreme Court of Bangladesh · 1 Jan 2017
The Supreme Court judgment reproduces Khandaker Moshtaque Ahmed’s August 20, 1975 proclamation, records his assumption of the presidency from August 15, and describes the imposition of martial law.
bdnews24.com · 11 Oct 2009
bdnews24’s Supreme Court hearing report describes evidence and judicial observations concerning meetings at Khandaker Mushtaq Ahmed’s home and the political transition that followed the assassination; it does not report a conviction against Mushtaq in that appeal.
The Daily Star · 19 Nov 2009
The report says the Appellate Division upheld the High Court-confirmed death sentences of 12 convicts in the Bangabandhu murder case and lists jailed, fugitive, and deceased convicts.
The Daily Star · 20 Dec 2009
The report summarizes the full Supreme Court judgment, the August 15, 1975 killings, and the list of 12 convicts whose death sentences were upheld.
The Daily Star · 14 Aug 2021
The report says five convicts remained fugitives in 2021, Abdul Majed was executed in 2020, five other convicts were executed in 2010, and Aziz Pasha had died.
The Daily Star · 30 Apr 2013
The report says the Appellate Division upheld three death sentences and life terms for eight others in the jail killing case, while noting earlier trial and High Court outcomes.
Prothom Alo · 3 Nov 2023
The report describes the November 3, 1975 killing of four national leaders, the case history, trial verdict, appeal posture, and absconding status of convicted people.
The Daily Star · 2 Nov 2020
The report states that only Abdul Majed's sentence had been implemented among convicted people in the jail killing case as of 2020, through his execution in the Bangabandhu murder case.