Dhaka, Aug. 15 -- Hummam Quader Chowdhury, son of executed BNP leader and former minister Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, has accused former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of masterminding his father's death to remove nationalist political opponents from her path.

Speaking at a press conference at the family's Dhanmondi residence on Thursday, Humam claimed that his father's 2015 execution on war crimes charges was the result of a politically motivated "judicial murder."

He alleged that the verdict in the case was drafted in the law ministry, not by the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT). "On the day the judgment was announced, my father already had a copy in his hand. It had come from the ministry, proving the verdicts were not being written...