Mir Quasem not to seek clemency
Samakal Correspondent
02 Sep 2016 06:54 AM । Update: 02 Sep 2016 10:01 AM
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Death-row war criminal Mir Quasem Ali would not seek presidential clemency for his crimes against humanity committed during the war of liberation in 1971.
Kashimpur Jail Super Proshanto Kumar Banik, has confirmed the development in this regard to Samakal today.
The condemned war criminal earlier told the jail authorities that he would decide about seeking presidential mercy, the last option to avoid the gallows, after the return of his disappeared son.
Earlier the copy of the full verdict of war criminal Mir Quasem Ali's review petition was sent to jail from the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT).
Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the death penalty for the Jamaat-e-Islami moneyman Mir Quasem Ali rejecting a petition filed by him seeking review.
A five-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha upheld the apex court's earlier verdict that upheld his death penalty for his wartime crimes.
On March 8 this year, the Appellate Division upheld the death penalty for Mir Quasem Ali for his war crimes and released the full text on June 6, hours after which the ICT had issued a death warrant for him.
On June 19, Quasem submitted the petition to the apex court through his lawyers, seeking review of the verdict.
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 sentenced Mir Quasem Ali, Al-Badr chief in the port city of Chittagong in 1971, to death on November 2, 2014.
On November 30, 2014, he filed an appeal before the Supreme Court challenging the death penalty.
Top Jamaat-e-Islami financier Quasem, now 64, was president of the Chittagong town unit of Islami Chhatra Sangha, the then student wing of Jamaat, till November 6, 1971.
He was then made general secretary of the East Pakistan Chhatra Sangha.
