Mujahid to walk gallows

Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mujahid will walk the gallows for crimes against humanity he committed over four decades ago. The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the death sentence of the Jamaat leader  for his wartime offences. The four-member bench of the Appellate Division led by Chief Justice SK Sinha delivered the verdict around 9:00am. Other members of the bench were Justice Nazmun Ara Sultana, Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, and Justice Hassan Foyez Siddique. On May 27, the four-member bench fixed the date as the arguments on the sexagenarian Jamaat leader's petition seeking his acquittal of all the charges ended on the day. The case was included in the cause list of the Appellate Division bench published on Monday. On July 17 in 2013, the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 sentenced Mujahid to death in connection with three charges, jailed him for life in one and sentenced him to five years in prison in another charge. Later on August 11, Mujahid filed the appeal with the apex court challenging the capital munishment on charges of war crimes, according to a news agency.