UNB, Gazipur :
The full text of the Supreme Court verdict, rejecting the review petition of death-row convict Mir Quasem Ali, was read out to the Jamaat leader at Kashimpur Jail on Wednesday morning.
Kashimpur jail super Proshanto Kumar Banik and jailer of jail No. 2 Nashir Ahmed with a copy of the verdict entered the condemned cell around 7:30pm where Mir Quasem Ali has been kept.
Later, the jail super read out the verdict to Mir Quasem Ali.
Earlier, the verdict’s copy reached Kashimpur Jail from Dhaka Central Jail at Keraniganj around 12:45am, said jailer Nashir Ahmed. The copy of the SC verdict rejecting the review plea of Mir Quasem Ali reached the Dhaka Central Jail around 9.10pm on Tuesday.
Earlier on the day, after the SC released the full text of the verdict, it was sent to the International Crimes Tribunal. The written text was released after a five-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, signed the copy of the verdict turning down the petition to review its earlier order upholding Mir Quasem’s death sentence for crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
With presidential clemency remaining the only option, a speculation is around that Mir Quasem is set to meet the same fate any moment as his five comrades-Jamaat leaders Abdul Quader Mollah, AHM Kamaruzzaman, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, Motiur Rahman Nizami and BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury.
