UNB, Dhaka: The International Crimes Tribunal-2 here on Wednesday received the full text of the Supreme Court verdict upholding the death sentence against Jamaat leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman. A four-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha, signed the verdict copy and sent it to the tribunal. Additional Registrar of the Supreme Court Drabir Foyez said the Appellate Division made six sets of the 36-page verdict. Of these, three sets have been made for sending to the tribunal, jail authorities and district magistrate while the rest three for the Home Ministry, Attorney General and Kamaruzzaman’s lawyers. The tribunal will send one copy to the jail authorities today who will read out it to Kamaruzzaman, he said. Later, the jail authorities will ask Kamaruzzaman whether he will seek presidential clemency, if he denies the jail authorities will take necessary steps for his execution, he added. On April, 6, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court rejected Jamaat senior assistant secretary general M Kamaruzzaman’s review petition against its previous verdict upholding the death penalty handed down by the International Crimes Tribunal-2 for his war crimes. A four-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha, dismissed the review petition. The other members are Justice Abdul Wahhab Miah, Justice Justice Hasan Foyez Siddique and Justice Shamsuddin Choudhury. On February 19, the International Crimes Tribunal-2 issued a death warrant for Kamaruzzaman after receiving the full text of the Supreme Court verdict that upheld his death penalty for his crimes against humanity during 1971. The tribunal on May 9, 2013 condemned Jamaat-e-Islami assistant secretary general M Kamaruzzaman, a 1971 operator of infamous Al Badr vigilante outfit, to death for his crimes against humanity, including murder, abduction, torture, rape and mass killing during the Liberation War. On November 3 last year, the Supreme Court upheld the verdict of the International Crimes Tribunal-2 that had condemned the Jamaat leader to death.
