UNB, Dhaka: The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court will deliver its judgment on Monday on the review petition filed by convicted war criminal M Kamaruzzaman against its verdict upholding his death penalty. A four-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha, fixed the date after hearing arguments from both the prosecution and the defence. Earlier, on April 1, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court had deferred the death-row war criminal M Kamaruzzaman’s review petition hearing to April 5 (Sunday). Earlier, the Appellate Division on March 9 had fixed April 1 for hearing on the review petition of M Kamaruzzaman, also the Jamaat-e-Islami assistant secretary general. Kamaruzzaman filed a petition on March 5 seeking review of the Appellate Division judgment upholding the death sentence awarded by the tribunal for his crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971. On May 9, 2013, the tribunal condemned the Jamaat leader 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. On February 18, 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. On the same day, the prison authorities read out the death warrant to Kamaruzzaman.
