BNP maintains silence over SQ Chy verdict too

Staff Correspondent: Maintaining its `no-comment policy` over verdicts against war criminals, BNP has refrained from making any comment about it’s leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury`s death sentence for his war crimes.

When contacted several leaders denied any comment on the verdict, and most of the senior leaders were found in the mobile phones after the Supreme Court (SC) verdict on Wednesday morning.

The country’s apex court has upheld the death penalty of BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury for his crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.

A four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha passed the verdict.

On October 1, 2013, The International Crimes Tribunal-1 found Salauddin guilty of nine of the 23 charges brought against him of his wartime offences.

The tribunal handed him death penalty on four charges, 20 years in jail for three charges and five years in jail for two other charges.

The BNP leader on October 29, 2013 appealed to the SC against the verdict seeking acquittal of all charges.

Risingbd/DHAKA/ July 29, 2015/Reza/Mukul