Sayedee\\\'s court verdict is undesirable but has to be accepted: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that Delwar Hossain Sayedee’s death penalty getting reduced by Supreme Court to life in jail is a binding judgment even though it is undesirable. People of Bangladesh would have been happy if the capital punishment handed down to Sayedee by the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) and upheld by the High Court was upheld by the apex court on Wednesday, the prime Minister said on Thursday, wading into the issue for the first time. The highest appeals court on Wednesday watered down the death sentence, given by the International Crimes Tribunal, of the top Jamaat-e-Islami leader to ‘imprisonment until death’ for wartime offences, according to a news agency.