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'Sayeedi jailed until death considering overall aspects'

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Published: 07:57, 14 May 2017   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
'Sayeedi jailed until death considering overall aspects'

Staff Correspondent: The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) said we sentenced Delwar Hossain Sayeedi to imprisonment until his natural death considering overall aspects.

The five-member bench headed by the Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha said this in the court on Sunday noon.

The others justices are justice Abdul Wahab Mia, Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, justice Hasan Foyez Siddiqui and justice Mirza Hossain Haide.

Chief Justice said during hearing that it is rare to change the order once the Appellate Division gave its final judgment after hearing.

Later, the court adjourned the hearing till Monday.

Sayeedi who sentenced imprisonment until his death filed review petition seeking acquittal in the case while the state sought the capital punishment for him for his crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.

In the 90-page petition, the notorious war criminal Delwar Hossain Sayeedi presented 16 arguments for granting acquittal in the case.

On the contrary on January 12 last year, the state filed a 30-page a petition seeking death sentence for Sayeedi showing five grounds in this regard.

On December 31, 2015, the Supreme Court (SC) released the full-text verdict awarding Delwar Hossain Sayeedi to imprisonment unlit death.

The sentence was awarded by the then Chief Justice Md Mozammel Hossain led five-member bench on September 17, 2014.

Earlier on February 28, 2013, the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 sentenced Sayeedi to death penalty for his crimes against humanity during Bangladesh's liberation war in 1971.



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