Former military officer Lt Colonel Mohiuddin Ahmed, convicted for his role in the 1975 coup killing of Bangladesh’s founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, arrived home on Monday after being deported from the United States.
US Homeland Security agents escorted sacked Lt Colonel Mohiuddin Ahmed as a Thai Airways aircraft brought him back home to face justice. “He has been handed over to police,” an immigration official said without elaborating.
But witnesses said security around the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court in downtown Dhaka was tightened as Ahmed was likely to be taken there first for a brief appearance for legal formality before handing him over to the jail authorities.
A federal court in the United States had recently rejected Ahmed’s appeal of staying back leading to his return to the country.
Authorities earlier intensified security around Dhaka’s Zia International Airport as US security officials with elite anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) troops and armed police took position around the airport.
Sheikh Mujib, father of former prime minister and Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina, was killed in the abortive August 15, 1975 coup along with most of his family members.
Hasina and her younger sister survived the coup as they were abroad at that time.
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