Wednesday 18 November 2015

Review petition of death row convicts BNP leader

The Appellate Division of Supreme Court will very soon publish the full reports of the review petition verdicts of death row convicts BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Jamaat leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed.

The Appellate Division headed by chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha told this to Attorney General Mahbubey Alam on Thursday morning.

The Attorney General told newsmen on Thursday morning that he sought full verdicts on the review petitions of Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed in the morning while the Appellate Division said that not briefs; it will publish the full verdicts very soon.

Meanwhile, the death-row convicts Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed have been kept in the condemned cells in Dhaka Central Jail.

After hearing on two separate review petitions on Wednesday, the Supreme Court upheld the death sentences for two leaders for committing crimes against humanity during liberation war in 1971.