Hearing on Kamaruzzaman\\\'s review plea today

The review petition filed by condemned war criminal M Kamaruzzaman of Jamaat-e-Islami will come up for hearing before a regular bench of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC)  today (Monday), reports UNB.

Referring to the order of the chamber judge of the apex court, Advocate Tariqul Islam, a counsel for the Jamaat leader, told the news agency, "The review petition will come up Monday's cause list for hearing".

Kamaruzzaman -- now on death row -- filed the petition on March 5 seeking to review the Appellate Division judgment upholding the death sentence awarded by the trial court for his crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.

On May 9, 2013, the International Crimes Tribunal -2 condemned Jamaat-e-Islami assistant secretary general M Kamaruzzaman, a 1971 operator of infamous Al Badr vigilante outfit, to death for his crimes against humanity, including murder, abduction, torture, rape and mass killing during the Liberation War.

On November 3 in 2014, the Appellate Division upheld the tribunal's death sentence by a short order and released its full text of the judgment on February 18 and according to the prescribed rules, the review petition was filed.