DHAKA: Hearing on the review petition filed challenging the death penalty for war crimes convict Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali will be held on Monday, according to the cause-list of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC).

The cause-list was published on Sunday afternoon (July 24).

A 4-member full bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha will conduct the hearing.

The other three members include Justices Syed Mahmud Hossain, Hasan Foez Siddique, Mirza Hossain Haidar and Mohammad Bazlur Rahman.

However, Mir Quasem Ali’s chief lawyer Khandaker Mahbub Hossain told banglanews that the defense will seek two months extension as they are not prepared due to the current situation.

Earlier on November 2, a three-member panel of International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 led by Justice Obaidul Hassan awarded death sentence to him in the 11th and 12th number of charges.

As per the verdict, Mir Quasem Ali was proved guilty in 10 charges out of 14.  The charge numbers are: 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 14.

The 62-year-old was the chief of Chittagong unit of Al-Badr, an auxiliary force of Pakistani army during the country’s war of independence in 1971.

BDST: 1937 HRS, JUL 24, 2016
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