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 Wednesday (August 24).

The cause-list of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) was published on Tuesday afternoon (August 23).

A 5-member full bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha will conduct the hearing.

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

Attorney General Mahbube Alam will move for the state while Mir Quasem Ali’s chief lawyer Khandaker Mahbub Hossain will move for the accused.

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: 1807 HRS, AUG 23, 2016
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