Full verdict on Jamaat leader Kamaruzzaman published

The Appellate Division has published a copy of the full verdict on Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, clearing the way for starting the process of execution of his death sentence.

The accused, however, has a chance to file a review petition within 15 days from its publication.

The war crimes tribunal sentenced to death Jamaat Assistant Secretary General Kamaruzzaman on May 9, 2013.

The Appellate Division upheld the verdict on Nov 3 that year.

Apart from Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, justices Md Abdul Wahhab Miah, Hasan Foez Siddique and AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury signed the verdict.

After getting the Appellate Division’s orders for the capital punishment, the tribunal will send death warrant to the jail. The accused will be able to seek amnesty from the president.

He will also be allowed to meet his family.

The prison authorities will get ready for the execution once the death warrant is out. But the accused cannot be hanged before the review petition, if any, is resolved.

Kamaruzzaman will be the second convict to see the full verdict on charges of war crimes against him.

The Supreme Court, in the first full war crimes verdict, extended Jamaat Assistant Secretary General Abdul Quader Molla’s punishment from life imprisonment to death sentence.

He was executed on Dec 12 last year.

Jamaat’s Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee’s punishment was lessened from death sentence to life term.