SC to deliver Mir Quasem’s appeal verdict on Tuesday

Dhaka, Mar 7: The Supreme Court (SC) will deliver its verdict on Tuesday on the appeal filed by condemned war criminal Mir Quasem Ali challenging the death penalty for his crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.

 

A five-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha, will announce the judgment. The other judges of the bench are Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, Justice Hasan Foez Siddique, Justice Mirza Hussain Haider and Justice Bazlur Rahman.

 

The delivery of the verdict is enlisted as item number 1 in Tuesday’s cause-list of the Appellate Division. The court proceedings will begin at 9am. After the closure of arguments, the Appellate Division on February 24 first set March 2 for delivering the judgment but later shifted the date to March 8.

 

The appeal hearing of Mir Quasem Ali began on February 9. Attorney General Mahbubey Alam represented the state while Khandker Mahbub Hossain stood for the Jamaat leader during the appeal hearing.

 

On November 30, 2014, Mir Quasem Ali filed the appeal with the SC challenging the death penalty awarded to him by the International Crimes Tribunal-2 for his crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.

 

On November 2 the same year, the tribunal had condemned the Jamaat-e-Islami leader to death for his crimes against humanity during the Liberation War, according to UNB. –Mithun