The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) yesterday ordered the authorities concerned to admit convicted war criminal Abdul Quddus, who is said to be suffering from cancer, to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), reports BSS. A four-member Appellate Division bench headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed the order, setting August 2 for passing order on his bail plea.

The apex court also ordered the physicians of the concerned department of the BSMMU to submit a report on Quddus’s health by that day.  “I talked to IG Prisons. He informed me that the convict is a cancer patient but he is not in a serious condition. Quddus is in sense and able to talk,” Attorney General Mahbubey Alam informed the court.

The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 on March 13, convicted Quddus along with his three partners in crimes for their misdeeds during the War of Liberation in 1971 in Noakhali area.