Ahmed Sharful Hossain

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Ahmed Sharful Hossain
Armoured Corps
Commands held
  • Adjutant of Bengal Lancers
Known forJail Killing Day
Battles/wars15 August 1975 Bangladeshi coup d'état

Ahmed Sharful Hossain, also known as Shariful Islam, is a Bangladesh Army officer and a fugitive involved in the assassination of President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the Jail Killing.[1][2]

Career

Some mid-ranking officers in the Bangladesh Army launched the

Tajuddin Ahmed were killed by the coup members before they left Bangladesh.[5][6]

Hossain was appointed a diplomat by the new Bangladesh government led by President Ziaur Rahman.[3] He was posted in Senegal as the Bangladesh counsellor. He also served in Bangladesh Embassies in Saudi Arabia and Oman.[7]

Hossain was an accused in the Jail killing case filed on 4 November 1975 by Kazi Abdul Awal, the deputy inspector general of Prison. Investigation in the case did not start till 1996 when Bangladesh Awami League returned to power led by Sheikh Hasina, the daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. On 15 October 1998 the case was brought to trial. In October 2004 Dhaka metropolitan sessions judge's court sentenced Hossain and 11 others to life imprisonment and 3 others to death.

Bazlul Huda, Syed Faruque Rahman, and Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan. The four were executed after being sentenced to death in the case over the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the 15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état. Hossain is currently a fugitive.[8][9][10]

References

  1. OCLC 28598415
    . Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  2. ISBN 978-0-7069-9726-2
    . Retrieved 11 January 2018. The officers who took a leading role in the planning and killing of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family were: ..., Major Shariful Hossain, ...
  3. ^ a b "6 killers still out of reach". The Daily Star. 15 August 2012. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  4. ^ "Mohiuddin's confession". The Daily Star. 19 November 2009. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  5. ^ "32 years on, jail killers still go unpunished". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  6. ^ "All efforts on to bring back Jail killers". bssnews.net. Archived from the original on 11 January 2018. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  7. ^ "Rewards for slayers". The Daily Star. 19 November 2009. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  8. ^ Yeasin, Muhammad. "11 convicted killers still absconding". The Independent. Dhaka. Archived from the original on 11 January 2018. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  9. ^ "Muslem to die; Farook, Shahriar, Huda, Mohiuddin acquitted". The Daily Star. 29 August 2008. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  10. ^ "Death convicts stay safe abroad". The Daily Star. 3 November 2015.
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