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Key Highlights Risaldar Moseluddin, convicted for assassinating Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was arrested by Indian intelligence agencies in West Bengal Moseluddin was handed over to Bangladesh on Monday Earlier, India nabbed and extradited another convict Abdul Majed in Rahman assassination case to Dhaka

Dhaka: India extradited a key conspirator in the assassination case of Bangladesh’s founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to Dhaka, said reports.

Risaldar Moseluddin, a key convict in Rahman assassination case was reportedly hiding in West Bengal. He was handed over to Bangladeshi authorities on Monday, PTI said quoting sources. He was reportedly hiding in Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district.

The development comes a few days after yet another convict in the case, Abdul Majed, believed to be hiding along with Moseluddin in India for many years, was apprehended in Dhaka and later executed.

Both Moseluddin and Majed were convicted of being involved in the 1975 Bangladesh coup and the assassination of Rehman, the father of incumbent Bangladeshi premier Sheikh Hasina.

It is believed that both the assassins, hid in disguise for years in West Bengal and Majed divulged the details about Moseluddin’s whereabouts during interrogation. While Majed took up a teaching job, Moseluddin ran a herbal medicine job in Bengal.

Majed, a former military captain was executed in Dhaka in the wee hours of April 12. He was put to death nearly four-and-a-half decades after the massacre in which Hasina’s father and other family members were killed on August 15, 1975.

Majed, Moseluddin and few other former army officers were sentenced in Bangladesh in absentia in 1988 for the assassinations. The country’s Supreme Court upheld the verdict in 2009 and five other killers were executed several months later. Five of those convicted were executed in 2010 and four remain at large.

Moseluddin were arrested by Indian intelligence agencies and handed over to authorities in Bangladesh.