DHAKA: Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah, convicted in war crimes cases, was executed at Dhaka Central Jail on thursday night.

He was the first war crimes convict who had walked to gallows at 10:01pm for committing crimes against humanity during Liberation War in 1971.

Executioner M Shahjahan Bhuiyan hanged the Jamaat leader Quader Mollah.

Shahjahan Bhuiyan also hanged five killers of father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. He also hanged notorious terrorist Ershad Sikder.

On Thursday evening, eleven family members of Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah met him for the last.

Hasan Jamil, son of Quader Mollah told banglanews that he along with other family members—his two brothers, two sisters, mother and maternal uncle—met him (Mollah) at Dhaka Central Jail from around 6:25 to 7:07pm.

On Sunday, International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) issued death warrant and sent it to the jail authority.

On Tuesday night Mollah was scheduled to be hanged but chamber Judge Syed MAhmud Hossain stayed the verdict for 10:30 am Wednesday.

Mollah’s lawyer Barrister Abdur Razzak, on Wednesday, pleads to file review petition to the Supreme Court appellate division.

But a full bench of the Supreme Court appellate division Thursday rejected the plea for filing review petition by the war crimes convict Quader Mollah.

The five-member full bench led by Chief Justice M Mozammel Hossen passed the order after second day’s hearing.

The other judges are Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, Justice Abdul Wahhab Miah, Justice Hasan Foyej Siddique and Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury.

Earlier On Thursday, the full verdict given by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court was published after signing all the five justices including chief justice Md Mozammel Hossain who passed the verdict.

On November 24, justices who passed the verdict completed writing their parts of the judgment. Later, the chief justice compiled into a full-text verdict.

On September 17, the Appellate division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday sentenced Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah to death for committing crimes against humanity during liberation war in 1971.

The court sentenced the Jamaat leader to death in sixth allegation of killing Hazrat Ali and his family members by gunfire at Mirpur Section-12.

The appellate division awarded life term imprisonment in fourth charge against Mollah in which the ICT-2 acquitted him.

In other allegations, the court upheld the ICT verdict.

On February 5, International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 sentenced Quader Mollah to life in prison for his involvement in crimes against humanity during liberation war in 1971.

On July 13 in 2010, Abdul Quader Mollah was arrested from the High Court gate in a murder-and-arson case filed with Pallabi Thana by an injured freedom fighter in January 2008.

On August 2 in 2010, he was shown arrest on charge of crimes against humanity.

Mollah, 65, was one of nine Jamaat and BNP leaders facing crimes against humanity charges at the two tribunals formed to try war crimes cases.

The following were the crimes against humanity charges framed against Mollah:

On April 5 in 1971, on Mollah’s instructions, one of his aides named Akhter killed Pallab, a student of Bangla College and an organiser of the Liberation War.

On March 27, 1971, Mollah and his aides murdered pro-liberation poet Meherun Nesa, her mother and two brothers at their home at Mirpur-6 of Dhaka.

On March 29, 1971, Mollah, accompanied by Al-Badr, Razakars and non-Bangla speaking Bihari men, apprehended journalist Khondoker Abu Taleb and brought him to a place known as Mirpur Jallad Khana Pump House and slit his throat.

On November 25, 1971, an organized attack and indiscriminate shooting by Mollah and his cohorts killed hundreds of unarmed people of Khanbari and Ghatar Char villages in Keraniganj.

On April 24, 1971, Mollah led Pakistan army men and around 50 non-Bangla speaking Biharis into an attack on unarmed people of Alubdi village at Mirpur that left 344 people killed.

On the evening of March 26, 1971, under the leadership of Mollah, some Biharis and Pakistani soldiers killed one Hazrat Ali and five members of his family at Mirpur.

BDST: 2210 HRS, DEC 12, 2013