Dhaka: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia paid last tribute to the party’s former lawmaker Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu by placing wreath at his body right after his namaz-e-janaza on Monday morning.
The namaz-e-janaza, funeral prayer, of the former president of BNP’s student wing Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, held at BNP’s central office in Nayapaltan, Dhaka at about 11:00am. 

BNP also observing mourn by hoisting black flags at their party offices across the country.
The body of Pintu will be taken to his Hazaribagh residence from Nayapaltan. Pintu’s family said he will be buried at Azimpur graveyard after the third and last namaz-e-janaza which will held on Leather Technology College field after Asr prayer.

Former BNP lawmaker Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu, a convict in BDR carnage case, died at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) at about 12:15pm on Sunday.

Doctors declared Pintu dead after he was taken to RMCH as he complained of chest pain. 

The prison authorities handed over Pintu’s body to his younger brother, Nasim Uddin Ahmed Rintu from RMCH morgue at about 11:15pm.

The first namaz-e-janaza of Nasiruddin Ahmed held at Hetem Kha Boro mosque premises in Rajshahi on Sunday night.

The body was taken to Dhaka by an ambulance at about 5:45am.

On 5 November 2013, Pintu had been sentenced to life term imprisonment in the country’s largest-ever case of killing at the Pilkhana Headquarters of now-defunct Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) in February, 2009.

Pintu was awarded punishment for instigating the mutineers to carry out the massacre that left a total of 74 people, including 57 army officials, killed inside Pilkhana.

He was shifted to Rajshahi Central Jail from Narayanganj on 20 April, said DIG Prison (Rajshahi division) Bazlur Rashid. 

He said they are in a process of completing the necessary steps to hand over Pintu’s body to his relatives.

Pintu had filed nomination to contest Dhaka South City Corporation polls for mayoral post, but the Election Commission cancelled his nomination during scrutiny.

He had been arrested in June, 2009 in connection with the border guard BDR mutiny case.

Pintu was detained by the police as he emerged from the High Court after seeking a ‘no arrest or harassment’ order in the BDR mutiny case.

He had been married with Nasima Akater Kalpana, a sister of former ward councillor of Dhaka City Corporation Saidur Ragman Newton.

BNP chairperson’s media wing member Sayrul Kabir Khan said Pintu’s eldest son has been studying at a university in Canada, while the younger one at Scholastica, Dhaka.

He said Pintu’s body will be taken to Dhaka from Rajshahi tonight (Sunday night) and then be kept at a hospital mortuary.