DKAKA: The Supreme Court will deliver its verdict on Monday on an appeal filed by Jamaat leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman challenging death penalty awarded by International Crimes Tribunal.

Kamaruzzaman has been enlisted in Monday’s cause list of the verdict of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court.

On May 9 last year, the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 last year awarded capital punishment to the Jamaat assistant secretary general humanity during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.

On June 6 in last year, the war crimes convict submitted appeal to the apex court challenging the verdict of the ICT.

On September 17, a four-member bench of the Appellate Division led by Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha kept it waiting for verdict.

Three other judges of the bench are  Justice M Abdul Wahhab Miah, Justice Hasan Foez Siddique and Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik.

His involvement in killing 164 people in Sohagpur village and a Golam Mostafa of Gridda Narayanpur village in Sherpur in 1971 earned him the highest penalty.

The Jamaat leader was found guilty of mass killing, murder, abduction, torture, rape, persecution, and abetment of torture in greater Mymensingh district during the Liberation War in 1971.

BDST: 1522 HRS, NOV 02, 2014