Mir Quasem`s appeal hearing in Cause List

Staff Correspondent: The Appellate Division bench for hearing on war trial has been reformed led by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha.

The other members of the bench are Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, Justice Hasan Foyez Siddique, Justice Mirza Hussain Haider and Justice Mohammad Bazlur Rahman.

Meanwhile, the appeal hearing filed by the death-row convict Jamaat leader Mir Quasem Ali has been enlisted in Tuesday`s Cause List of the bench.

On November 2, 2014, a commander of para militia force al-Badr during the war, Mir Quasem was awarded capital punishment by the International Crimes Tribunal-2.

The tribunal handed down death penalty in two charges for killing seven people, including one Jasim Uddin, after abduction. He was awarded a total of 72-year imprisonment on other charges of abduction, conspiracy and planning. Four charges were not proved.

On November 30, 2014, Quasem Ali appealed to the Supreme Court against the death sentence.

Mir Quasem joined Islami Chhatra Sangha, then student wing of Jamaat, in 1967 while studying at Chittagong Collegiate School. He later became its Chittagong City unit general secretary.

He played an important role in forming al-Badr Bahini that orchestrated systematic killing of freedom fighters and intellectuals.

risingbd/Dhaka/Feb 09, 2016/Mahidi/A K Azad