Jhintu alias Mohiuddin, the then senior vice-president of Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal (JCD) of Dhaka City unit, who has been a fugitive since the verdict, surrendered to the Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court of Matiur Rahman.

His mother Saleha Begum, in a petition to the court, sought president's mercy to commute her son's death sentence. The petition appealed to the court to forward her plea to the jail authorities to take necessary steps.

After the hearing, Judge sent Mohiuddin, son of Shahidulla of 35/2 Distillery Road at Sutrapur, to Dhaka Central Jail and forwarded the mercy petition to the jail authorities instructing to take necessary steps.

A Martial Court sentenced Mohiuddin and three others Kamal alias Galkata Kamal, Shahid Hossain and Abul Kashem- to death on July 20 in 1982 for killing Abdul Khaleq Rana and Firoz Alam Mamun of Sutrapur.

Kamal, who was in jail during the delivery of the verdict, was executed for the crime after being confirmed by the High Court, while three others were tried in absentia.

In the surrender petition, Mohiuddin said he joined the JCD being inspired by the dynamic service of the late President Ziaur Rahman. But after the death of the president, he fell a victim to political vindictiveness and conspiracy, the petition added.

He also stated to the court that the sentence passed against him lacked eyewitness and concrete evidence.