Dhaka, Dec 14 (The New Age): Executed war criminal Abdul Quader Molla was buried in his family
graveyard in Sadarpur upazila of Faridpur early Friday amid tight
security.
His family said that the 66-year-old Jamaat-e-Islami leader
was buried beside the graves of his parents at his ancestral home at
Amirabad in Bhashanchar union at about 4:15am.
Quader Molla,
convicted of committing crimes against humanity during the 1971
Liberation War, was hanged in Dhaka Central Jail on Thursday night
after the government ordered the prison authorities to execute his death
warrant.
The family members of Quader Molla, assistant secretary
general of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, including his widow, daughters
and sons, and other relatives who were staying in the capital, could not
attend the burial due to security concern.
‘We will visit the grave
when time arrives,’ said Quader’s son Hasan Jamil, adding, ‘My father
instructed us not to construct any permanent structure on the grave...’
New
Age correspondent in Faridpur reported that an ambulance carrying the
body escorted by more than 10 vehicles of law enforcers arrived at
Amirabad village around 3:15am. Relatives and party fellows were seen
wailing.
Mainuddin Molla, younger brother of Quader Molla and
Bhashanchar union council chairman, received the body in presence of
Sadarpur upazila nirbahi officer Lokman Hossain, executive magistrate
Muhammad Mamun Shiblee and additional superintendent of police Bijoy
Basak.
His namaz-e-janaza was led by Moulana Abu Taleb, a Jamaat
activist and imam of Tepakhola jam-e-mosque, was held in the home yard.
The local administration allowed about three hundred Jamaat leaders and
his relatives to attend the janaza amid tight security.
A gayebana janaza was held at Amirabad Fazlul Haque Pilot Institute High School ground in the afternoon.
Jamaat-e-Islami and his followers also held gayebana-janaza on Friday across the country, the party sources said.