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Published : 08 Mar 2016, 12:29 PM
“The judgment fulfilled the nation’s expectations. The entire nation is happy with it,” said Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif, joint general secretary of the ruling party.
“We now demand quick execution of the verdict so that the nation at least partially gets rid of a stigma,” he told bdnews24.com.
An Appellate Division bench, headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, handed down the verdict on Tuesday, upholding Mir Quasem’s death sentence.
He was the third most important functionary after Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami and Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid in the Al-Badr force in 1971.
His funding helped the Jamaat secure a strong foothold in independent Bangladesh.
Early last year, the International Crimes Tribunal had sentenced him to death for the killing of young freedom fighter Jashim Uddin Ahmed and eight others and to 72 years in prison for acts of abduction and torture during the Liberation War.
The apex court upheld the punishment on eight counts, acquitted him on one, and changed the penalty in another.
