Nizami files review plea
UNB
Condemned war criminal Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami on Tuesday filed a petition seeking review of the Supreme Court verdict upholding the International Crimes Tribunal judgment that had sentenced him to death, reports UNB. Barrister Najib Momen, son of Nizami, who submitted the 70-page review petition with the Appellate Division around 11:00 am said there were mentioned 46 grounds seeking release of the convict in the war crimes case.
Earlier on March 15, the ICT issued a death warrant for Nizami for his crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971 after the apex court released the full text of its verdict upholding his death penalty. On January 6, a four-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, upheld the death sentence of the Jamaat Ameer for his crimes against humanity during the war. The Appellate Division upheld the ICT-1 order sentencing Nizami to death for the wartime crimes, including genocide and murder of intellectuals. The apex court upheld his death penalty for three of the four counts of charges while he was acquitted for the rest one.
The SC upheld his life imprisonment for two out of four charges of arrest, detention, torture, and murder of three people, including headmaster Maulana Kasim Uddin of Pabna Zila School on June 4, 1971, complicity in torture, murder and rape at Mohammadpur Physical Training Institute in Dhaka, and murder of Badi, Rumi Jewel and Azad at Old MP Hostel in Dhaka on August 30 in 1971.
