1975 Jail Killing

1975 Jail Killing
1975 Jail Killing
	Old Dhaka Central Jail, the site of the assassination.
Location	Old Dhaka Central Jail, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Date	3 November 1975 ; 04:10 AM (BST)
Target	Tajuddin Ahmad; Syed Nazrul Islam; Muhammad Mansur Ali; A.H.M. Qamaruzzaman
Attack type	Assassination, Extrajudicial killing
Weapons	9mm Sten Carbine; Type 56 assault rifle;
Deaths	4
Assailants	A group of junior army officers led by Moslemuddin
No. of participants	5
Accused	23
Charges	Murder
Verdict	Death by hanging:; Moslemuddin, Marfat Ali Shah, Abul Hashem Mridha; Life imprisonment:; Farooq, Rashid, Noor, Huda, Rashed, Shahriar, Mohiuddin, Dalim, Majed, Hashem, Nazmul and Sharful;
Convicted	15

The Jail Killing (Bengali: জেল হত্যা, romanized: Jail hotya) refers to the murder of four national leaders of the Bangladesh Liberation War in Bangladesh by a group of junior army officers who carried out a coup d'état there on 15 August 1975. The four killed were former vice-president Syed Nazrul Islam, former prime minister Tajuddin Ahmad and Muhammad Mansur Ali, and former home minister A. H. M. Qamaruzzaman.