Verdict on ATM Azhar’s plea against death penalty any day

The Supreme Court will deliver its verdict any day on the appeal filed challenging the death sentence of Jamaat leader ATM Azharul Islam for war crimes. 

A four-member bench of the Appellate Division led by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed the order on Wednesday after closing the arguments from both sides.

Earlier on June 18, the Appellate Division started hearing the appeal filed by war criminal ATM Azharul Islam challenging his death sentence.

On December 30, 2014, the International Crimes Tribunal-1 sentenced Jamaat-e-Islami’s Assistant Secretary General Islam to death on for crimes against humanity committed in Rangpur during the Liberation War in 1971.

He was found guilty of five of the six charges brought against him. 

Later on January 28, 2015, ATM Azharul filed the appeal challenging his death penalty.