Want to see father’s killer SQ Chy hang, says Nutan Chandra Shingha’s son

I want to see my father’s killer hanged, says the son of Nutan Chandra Shingha.

Salauddin Quader Chowdhury had ordered Pakistani soldiers to kill the pharmacy shop owner at Raojan’s Gahira on the morning of Apr 13, 1971.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld death penalty for Chittagong’s war-time terror.

He was sentenced to death for the killing of Nutan Chandra Shingha and on three other charges.   

“We’re happy that the verdict was upheld," said son Prafulla Ranjan, now more than 70.   

“Now I would like to see it done,” he told bdnews24.com after the appellate verdict.

Prafulla Ranjan said when the war began his father stayed back and sent his family to India.

Charge-3 describes the killing of Nutan Chandra Shingha at his home in Raojan’s Gahira.

Chowdhury had brought Pakistani soldiers at Singha’s Kundeshwari Oushadhalaya around 9am.

They left after talking to Singha for few minutes, but returned to surround his home within 10 to 15 minutes, while Singha was praying in the temple inside his home.

Chowdhury dragged him out of the temple and told the Pakistani soldiers that his father, Fazlul Quader Chowdhury, wanted this man dead.

The soldiers fired on him.

“He was squirming in pain, when Salauddin Quader shot him three times to ensure his death,” Ranjan testified at the Tribunal.

His father’s friend ‘Bajrahari’ told him of how he was killed.

Eldest son of Muslim League leader Fazlul Quader Chowdhury, Salauddin Quader Chowdhury joined hands with his father to commit killings and deadly torture of Hindus and supporters of the Liberation War.