SC begins appeal hearing
Thursday, 30 April 2015
The Supreme Court (SC) has started hearing the appeal against the war crimes verdict of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujaheed, reports bdnews24.com.
The hearings started at the four-member appeals bench led by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha on Wednesday.
The other judges of the bench are Justice Nazmun Ara Sultana, Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain and Justice Hasan Foez Siddique.
SM Shajahan and Shishir Monir stood for the Jamaat leader while Attorney General Mahbubey Alam and Deputy Attorney General Ekramul Haque argued for the state.
On July 17, 2013, the second war crimes tribunal sentenced the Jamaat secretary general to death for five of the seven war crime charges levelled against him.