The government is trying to bring back convicted killers of Bangabandhu, Noor Chowdhury from Canada and Rashed Chowdhury from the US but it is not an easy task, says Law Minister Anisul Huq.
“I will not provide a time frame. We are trying, but it has gone tough,” he told the media on Monday at his offices.
He, however, declined to provide details of the process as the killers may get the wind of it and change locations.
Four among the six assassins of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who have been at large since they were sentenced to death, have yet to be found in the nine years since the verdict.
Negotiations by the government to extradite Noor Chowdhury and Rashed Chowdhury to face the penalty have yet to bear fruit.
Four years after Bangladesh's independence, the Father of the Nation and most of his family members were brutally killed on Aug 15, 1975, by a group of renegade army officers.
His daughters Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana survived because they were abroad at the time.
Of the 12 convicts, five were hanged on Jan 28, 2010, one died of natural causes and six more are absconding.
The six convicts still at large are Abdur Rashid, Shariful Haque Dalim, M Rashed Chowdhury, SHMB Noor Chowdhury, Abdul Majed and Risaldar Moslemuddin. Interpol has issued a red notice against them.
Law Minister Huq, who was a prosecution lawyer in the Bangabandhu murder case, said on Monday that the government is continuing its efforts bring the killers back to the country through a legal process.
“We have already decided to move the court in Canada and processes for it is ongoing...You are aware that the Canadian law does not allow deporting an individual who face the death penalty at home. We are opening a legal battle as well as opened talks with Canada over the heinous crime he committed. The prime minister has raised the issue during her recent visit,” he said.
On bringing back Rashed Chowdhury from the US, Huq said the case there was not as tough as Canada. “We have resorted to legal options as well as talks.”