Nizami`s review verdict on Thursday

Staff Correspondent: The Supreme Court will deliver its verdict on the review plea filed by Jamaat leader Motiur Rahman Nizami against his death sentence on May 5 (Thursday).

A four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha passed the order on Tuesday after hearing on the petition filed by the Jamaat leader seeking review of the top court’s verdict that upheld the death sentence given to him by International Crimes Tribunal-1.

On March 29, Nizami filed the petition mentioning 46 grounds in a 70-page appeal praying to acquit him of all charges on which he was found guilty and awarded the death penalty.

For committing crimes in 1971, the SC upheld his death sentences on three charges and life term imprisonment on two other charges on January 6, 2016.

Earlier, Nizami was awarded the death penalty by the International Crimes Tribunal-1 on October 29, 2014. He was awarded life imprisonment on four other charges.

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