The Supreme Court will deliver its verdict on Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid’s plea, seeking a review of his death sentence on war crimes charges, on Wednesday.
Published : 17 Nov 2015, 08:48 AM
An appeal bench led by Chief Justice SK Sinha fixed the date on Tuesday morning after hearing his plea.
A special tribunal had sentenced the Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general to death on Jul 17, 2013 for the murder of intellectuals and his involvement in the killing and torture of Hindus in 1971.
Former social welfare minister Mujahid had moved the top court, seeking a review of the death penalty but the Chief Justice Sinha-led bench upheld the tribunal’s verdict on June 16.
The full appeal verdict was published on Sep 30.
Mujahid’s last hope of evading execution rests on the outcome of his review petition to be made known on Wednesday.
If the court upholds the verdict, he will be left with the last option: seeking presidential clemency.
The Supreme Court was scheduled to hear on Tuesday a similar review plea by death-row war crimes convict Salauddin Quader Chowhdhury after Mujahid’s petition.
But it deferred the hearing to Wednesday at the defence counsel’s request.