In 2001 he was in jail charged with involvement in the Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the first president of Bangladesh. He was released when the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami government came to power. He was given the rank of Additional Secretary in the foreign ministry. He was made the ambassador to Malaysia. In 2004 he was acquitted in the Jail Killing by a lower court in Bangladesh.