Staff Reporter :The plaintiff of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman murder case, AFM Mohitul Islam, died at the age of 63 on Thursday.Mohitul, a Receptionist-cum-Resident Personal Assistant of Bangabandhu, breathed his last in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU)of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) at 2:55 pm. Mohitul Islam left behind his wife, a daughter and a host of relatives, admirers and friends to mourn his death.Family sources said that the body had been kept in the ICU unit as his burial plan was yet to be finalized. “No decision has been taken about his burial as yet”, Asifur Rahman, a grandson of Mohitul said. President M Abdul Hamid, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Law Minister Anisul Huq mourned the death of Mohitul Islam and conveyed deep sympathy to the members of the bereaved family. They also prayed for salvation of his departed soul. Mohitul Islam was admitted to the BSMMU in May with kidney complications. Since then, he was in the intensive care.He could also not be taken abroad for better treatment because of his critical health condition.Doctors said that his kidneys needed repeated dialysis. The infection in his lungs was also critical. His brain, too, was also becoming dysfunctional in the end.Mohitul Islam was the then Resident PA of the then President Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the key witness to his assassination by a group of misguided army officers on August 15, 1975.He lodged the murder complaint with Dhanmandi police station. The delayed trial process began after Awami League under the leadership of Sheikh Hasina returned to power in 1996 general elections and scrapped the infamous Indemnity Act which until then protected the killers from justice.Mohitul also appeared as the plaintiff or key-witness to the trial while his testimony set the course of the case.After trial, five of the killers of the Bangabandhu were executed in January 2010.Six others are still hiding execution as they are living abroad, but no significant headway is visible in the government’s efforts to bring them back.
