UNB, Dhaka :The Supreme Court (SC) will deliver its verdict on Thursday on the petition filed by condemned war criminal Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami seeking review of its judgment that upheld the International Crimes Tribunal judgment sentencing him to death.A four-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, fixed the date on Tuesday after hearing arguments from both the prosecution and defence. On April 10, the SC deferred the hearing until May 3 on the review petition. On March 15, the ICT issued a death warrant for Nizami for his crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971 after the apex court released the full text of its verdict upholding his death penalty. On January 6, a four-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha, upheld the death sentence of the Jamaat Ameer. The Appellate Division upheld the ICT-1 order sentencing Nizami to death for the wartime crimes, including genocide and murder of intellectuals. The apex court upheld his death for three of the four counts of charges while he was acquitted for the rest one.
