BANGLADESH NEWS
Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee will lodge an appeal to
the Supreme Court by March 29 to challenge his conviction for committing
crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.
Defence lawyers are now working on the appeal, which will also seek acquittal for Sayedee on the war crimes charges he faced at the International Crimes Tribunal-1.
The tribunal on February 28 had sentenced the Jamaat leader to death on two charges, though it found the accused “guilty beyond doubt” on eight.
The last date for filing the appeal is March 30, Sayedee’s counsel Tajul Islam told .
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court will have to dispose of the appeal within 60 days of its filing.
The accused was sentenced to death for the abduction, torture and murder of Ibrahim Kutti and the killing of Bisa Bali in Pirojpur.
The ICT-1, said Tajul, has handed down capital punishment to Sayedee on charge of killing Ibrahim Kutti in May 1971 without considering the defence evidence.
Ibrahim’s wife Momtaj Begum had filed a case in January 1972 citing that her husband was killed in September 1971, and the case statement and its charge sheet effect were submitted to the tribunal, but the court did not take into cognizance the evidence, mentioned Tajul.
The tribunal, added the lawyer, sentenced Sayedee to death for killing Bisa Bali, although his brother Sukharanjan Bali in a written statement said Sayedee was not involved in the murder of his brother.
The defence produced the statement of Sukharanjan before the tribunal as he (Sukharanjan) was abducted from tribunal premises. But the court in its verdict has not mentioned anything about this evidence, said Tajul.
Prosecutor Syed Haider Ali said they will present argument in the apex court to uphold the tribunal’s verdict against Sayedee.
Defence lawyers are now working on the appeal, which will also seek acquittal for Sayedee on the war crimes charges he faced at the International Crimes Tribunal-1.
The tribunal on February 28 had sentenced the Jamaat leader to death on two charges, though it found the accused “guilty beyond doubt” on eight.
The last date for filing the appeal is March 30, Sayedee’s counsel Tajul Islam told .
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court will have to dispose of the appeal within 60 days of its filing.
The accused was sentenced to death for the abduction, torture and murder of Ibrahim Kutti and the killing of Bisa Bali in Pirojpur.
The ICT-1, said Tajul, has handed down capital punishment to Sayedee on charge of killing Ibrahim Kutti in May 1971 without considering the defence evidence.
Ibrahim’s wife Momtaj Begum had filed a case in January 1972 citing that her husband was killed in September 1971, and the case statement and its charge sheet effect were submitted to the tribunal, but the court did not take into cognizance the evidence, mentioned Tajul.
The tribunal, added the lawyer, sentenced Sayedee to death for killing Bisa Bali, although his brother Sukharanjan Bali in a written statement said Sayedee was not involved in the murder of his brother.
The defence produced the statement of Sukharanjan before the tribunal as he (Sukharanjan) was abducted from tribunal premises. But the court in its verdict has not mentioned anything about this evidence, said Tajul.
Prosecutor Syed Haider Ali said they will present argument in the apex court to uphold the tribunal’s verdict against Sayedee.
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