The Jamaat-e-Islami leader’s lawyer Joynal Amin Tuhin filed the review petition just after 11am on Thursday, the 14th day since the International Crimes Tribunal issued the death warrant.
The petition was recorded just after 1pm.
Before submitting the petition, Kamaruzzaman’s lawyers Khandaker Mahbub Hossain, Tajul Islam and Shishir Monir held a press conference on the review petition.
Khandaker, also the SCBA president and the adviser to BNP chief Khaleda Zia, said: “Thousands of cases are pending. Many cases in which death penalties had been awarded are also pending.”
“There is no compulsion for prompt disposal of the review petition here,” he added.
Kamaruzzaman had been sentenced to death by the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 in May 2013 after it found him guilty of five of the seven charges levelled against him by the prosecution.
He was the acting president of the Islami Chhatra Sangha in Mymensingh in 1971 and ‘chief organiser’ of the Al Badr in the region during the 1971 Liberation War.
Vigilante militia Al Badr had been formed to help the Pakistan army thwart Bangladesh’s freedom struggle, the court observed.
Kamaruzzaman was awarded death on two charges - the murder of Golam Mostafa and the killing of 120 men and the raping of women at Sohagpur village at Sherpur’s Nalitabari on July 25, 1971.
The Appellate Division upheld his death sentence in its verdict in Nov, 2014. But it reduced the death sentence awarded for the murder of Golam Mostafa to life.
The three judges of the ICT-2 signed his death warrant on Feb 19 after the release of the Supreme Court’s full verdict. The death warrant was read out to Kamaruzzaman after it was sent to prison.