The Appellate Division on Wednesday rejected two petitions filed by condemned war crimes convicts Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury seeking review of its verdicts upholding their death sentences.
The four-member bench chaired by chief justice SK Sinha pronounced the orders after hearing the petitions of Jamaat leader Mojaheed and Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Salauddin on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively.
According to the law, the two condemned convicts will, however, have the right to seek presidential clemency in seven days.
During the hearing in Salauddin’s petition on Wednesday, his lawyer Khandker Mahbub Hossain submitted to the court for the first time Salauddin’s educational certificate issued by the registrar of the Punjab University on March 22, 2012.
According to the certificate, Salauddin obtained second class in Bachelor of Arts examinations held in August 1971.
The court observed that the certificate was forged as the font of the last two digits of ‘1971’ was smaller than the font of the first two digits.
The four-member bench chaired by chief justice SK Sinha pronounced the orders after hearing the petitions of Jamaat leader Mojaheed and Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Salauddin on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively.
According to the law, the two condemned convicts will, however, have the right to seek presidential clemency in seven days.
During the hearing in Salauddin’s petition on Wednesday, his lawyer Khandker Mahbub Hossain submitted to the court for the first time Salauddin’s educational certificate issued by the registrar of the Punjab University on March 22, 2012.
According to the certificate, Salauddin obtained second class in Bachelor of Arts examinations held in August 1971.
The court observed that the certificate was forged as the font of the last two digits of ‘1971’ was smaller than the font of the first two digits.
Source: New Age
