The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday set June 18 for hearing appeals filed against International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) verdicts sentencing Jamaat leader ATM Azharul Islam and former state-minister for agriculture Syed Mohammad Qaiser to death.
A four-member Appellate Division bench headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain set the date.
The now defunct ICT-2 on December 23, 2014, handed down death penalty to Syed Mohammad Qaiser for his crimes against humanity committed in 1971 in and around Habiganj.
The tribunal had sentenced him to death as the 14 charges out of the total
16 framed against him were proved beyond any reasonable doubt.
Qaiser filed appeal against his conviction on January 19, 2015.
