Jail Killing Day is observed by the Awami League (AL) of Bangladesh and many other political organization on November 3 each year. It commemorates the killing of four Awami League leaders: former Vice President Syed Nazrul Islam, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh Tajuddin Ahmed and Captain (Rtd.) Mansur Ali, and former Home Minister A H M Quamruzzaman on this date in 1975. The men were shot by army officials inside Dhaka Central Jail. Those killers, later, got indirect benefits from two President of Bangladesh Ziaur Rahman and Hossain Mohammad Ershad.
Nearly 29 years after the killings, those responsible went to trial. In the judgement, which was pronounced on October 20, 2004, during the premiership of Begum Khaleda Zia, three fugitive former army personnel were sentenced to death, 12 former army personnel were awarded life term imprisonment and five people, including four senior politicians, like Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leaders A K M Obaidur Rahman and Manzur Hossain, were acquitted.
On August 28, 2008, the High Court division of Supreme Court of Bangladesh acquitted six former military men of the Jail Killing Case. Those who were found not guilty of the crime include Syed Faruque Rahman, Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Bazlul Huda and A K M Mohiuddin Ahmed, all these men were executed in 2009 for their involvement in Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. This acquittal is being appealed to the Appellate Division of Supreme Court of Bangladesh by the prosecution.[1]
The individuals who received life imprisonment included: