Hasan Iqbal , son of condemned war crime convict Md Kamaruzzaman on Monday termed the Appellate Division verdict in his father’s death sentence as miscarriage of justice and hoped that his father will be acquitted after a review by the apex court.
However, attorney general Mahbubey Alam said the remarks were audacious and tantamount to contempt of court.
Speaking at a press briefing in Supreme Court bar association auditorium, Ahsan said that his father did not even visited Sohagpur where crimes against humanity were committed and authorities hold his father responsible during the liberation war.
The Appellate Division did not alter the death sentence earlier awarded by a war crimes tribunal, he said.
The son said that his father was implicated in the war crimes case because of his political ideology, though, what he said, his father was innocent.
No newspaper reports and no articles on the Sohagpur massacre cited his father’s involvement, no women—claimed to be victims of the Sohagpur atrocities— testified that they knew Kamaruzzaman before the liberation war.
Ahsan was flanked by his mother, two brothers, a sister, his uncle and a cousin during the briefing.
Later, attorney general Mahbubey Alam said the remarks were audacious and in contempt of court.
The Appellate Division on November 3 upheld the death sentence awarded to Kamaruzzaman by a war crimes tribunal, for crimes against humanity he had committed during the 1971 war of independence.
Meanwhile, the law minister, Anisul Huq said on Wednesday that the government instructed the jail authorities to begin the preparations for the execution of war crimes death row inmate Muhammad Kamaruzzaman.
Anis had said that the government would provide reasonable time to the condemned Jamaat leader to apply to the president for mercy.
Source: Newage