Jamaat Leader Subhan's appeal hearing to begin on Oct 16

Staff Correspondent: The Supreme Court (SC) has fixed October 16 for hearing the appeal filed by convicted war criminal Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdus Subhan.

A three-member bench of Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, fixed the date on Wednesday morning.

The court also ordered to submit concise statements of the appeal before the court.

Lawyer Jaynal Abedin Tuhun (advocate on record) moved for the petitioner while Attorney General Mahbubey Alam stood for the state.

Jamaat leader Abdus Subhan on March 18, 2015 filed an appeal with the SC challenging his death penalty awarded by a war crimes tribunal for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.

In his appeal filed with the Supreme Court, Subhan pleaded not guilty and sought his acquittal of all the six charges, in which he was found guilty.

On February 18, 2015, Jamaat Nayeb-e-Ameer Subhan, who led the anti-liberation elements in Pabna in 1971, was sentenced to death on three charges, imprisonment until death on two charges and five years' imprisonment on another by the International Crimes Tribunal-2.



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