The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court will pass order tomorrow to the review petition of condemned war criminals Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed against its verdict upholding his death penalty for crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
The court set the date hearing the petition on Tuesday
In the hearing, Mojaheed’s lawyer Khandker Mahbub Hossain argued for his client’s acquittal as he (Mojaheed) had no direct participation in the killings of intellectual during the 1971 liberation war.
Mahbub argued that Mojaheed was wrongly sentenced to death saying that he was sentenced to death for his commanding or superior responsibility in the intellectual killing being the commander of Al-Badr force and president of Islami Chhatra Sangha.
Mojaheed should not be convicted for superior responsibility in intellectual killing as the Al-Badr was under the command of notorious Pakistani Army, he said.
Khandker Mahbub referring a report published in the Daily Ittefaq on March 29 in 1972, also argued that total 42 cases were filed for the killings and 50 persons were arrested but Mojaheed was neither arrested not named in those cases.
Meanwhile, attorney general Mahbubey Alam started the argument for upholding Mojaheed’s death sentence.
He opposed the defence’s argument saying that such arguments could not be made in the review petitions.
If any error was found in the Appellate Division verdict that upheld Mojaheed death sentence, that could be argued in the review hearing.
Earlier, on November 2, a four-member Appellate Division bench, headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, fixed today (November 17) for the hearing on review petition of the war crimes convict.
Mojaheed filed the review petition with the SC against its verdicts that upheld his death penalty for crimes against humanity during the 1971 war on October 14.
The court on June 16, upheld the death sentence awarded by the ICT-2 to Mojaheed for killing intellectuals during the war.
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 on July 17, 2013 awarded Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed death penalty for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in collaboration with the Pakistan occupation forces, after finding the Al Badr boss guilty of five, out of seven, charges.
On August 11, 2013, condemned convict Mojaheed filed an appeal with the Appellate Division against his capital punishment awarded by the ICT-2.
The court set the date hearing the petition on Tuesday
In the hearing, Mojaheed’s lawyer Khandker Mahbub Hossain argued for his client’s acquittal as he (Mojaheed) had no direct participation in the killings of intellectual during the 1971 liberation war.
Mahbub argued that Mojaheed was wrongly sentenced to death saying that he was sentenced to death for his commanding or superior responsibility in the intellectual killing being the commander of Al-Badr force and president of Islami Chhatra Sangha.
Mojaheed should not be convicted for superior responsibility in intellectual killing as the Al-Badr was under the command of notorious Pakistani Army, he said.
Khandker Mahbub referring a report published in the Daily Ittefaq on March 29 in 1972, also argued that total 42 cases were filed for the killings and 50 persons were arrested but Mojaheed was neither arrested not named in those cases.
Meanwhile, attorney general Mahbubey Alam started the argument for upholding Mojaheed’s death sentence.
He opposed the defence’s argument saying that such arguments could not be made in the review petitions.
If any error was found in the Appellate Division verdict that upheld Mojaheed death sentence, that could be argued in the review hearing.
Earlier, on November 2, a four-member Appellate Division bench, headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, fixed today (November 17) for the hearing on review petition of the war crimes convict.
Mojaheed filed the review petition with the SC against its verdicts that upheld his death penalty for crimes against humanity during the 1971 war on October 14.
The court on June 16, upheld the death sentence awarded by the ICT-2 to Mojaheed for killing intellectuals during the war.
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 on July 17, 2013 awarded Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed death penalty for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in collaboration with the Pakistan occupation forces, after finding the Al Badr boss guilty of five, out of seven, charges.
On August 11, 2013, condemned convict Mojaheed filed an appeal with the Appellate Division against his capital punishment awarded by the ICT-2.
Source: New Age
