Bangladesh SC upholds Jamaat leader Kamaruzzaman’s death for war crimes

Dhaka, Bangladesh (BBN)-The Supreme Court of Bangladesh Monday upheld special tribunal’s verdict that had awarded death penalty to war criminal Jamaat-e-Islami leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman.
The SC upheld the capital punishment to the 62-year-old senior assistant secretary general of Jamaat for killing 164 people at Sohagpur village in Sherpur during the Liberation War of the country in 1971.
A four-member SC bench headed by Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha upheld the death penalty on majority view.
The SC came up with the order after holding hearing on the appeals filed on behalf and against the death penalty awarded to Kamaruzzaman, one of the key organisers of the infamous Al-Badr force– an auxiliary force of Pakistan army.
On May 9 last year, the International Crimes Tribunal-2 sentenced death to Kamaruzzaman.

BBN/ASI/AD-03Nov14-11:00am (BST)

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