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Death Penalty for Mollah

Full SC verdict soon

Ashutosh Sarkar
The full text of the Supreme Court judgment awarding death penalty to Jamaat-e-Lslami leader Abdul Quader Mollah for war crimes is likely to be released within a few days.
All the five apex court judges, who delivered the verdict by a majority view, have completed writing their parts of the judgement, court sources said, adding those will be compiled into a full-text verdict.
The release of the SC verdict may clear the way
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for its execution, SC sources said.
The five-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain on September 17 sentenced the Jamaat assistant secretary general to death, overruling his life imprisonment awarded by the International Crimes Tribunal.
The government will execute the SC verdict as per the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act immediately after its certified copy is released, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam told The Daily Star.
The judges are to sign the "order of the court" now if they have finished writing the verdict, he said, adding the remaining formalities to release the verdict might take another one or two days.
Mahbubey Alam added there was no scope for a review petition as per the Tribunals Act, 1973, under which Quader
Mollah had been convicted.
Tajul Islam, a lawyer of the Jamaat leader, said the SC would decide whether his client's review petition was acceptable or not.
"Of course, Abdul Quader Mollah has right to file a petition with the Supreme Court, seeking review of the verdict against him," he said, adding that the defence would file a review petition in 30 days after receiving the certified copy of the verdict.
The SC condemned Quader Mollah to death for killing Hajrat Ali Laskar, his wife, three daughters and his two-year-old son on March 26, 1971 in Mirpur, Dhaka. One of the three daughters was raped.
His eldest daughter was also raped but she survived and testified in the court against Mollah.
In February, the ICT also found Quader Mollah guilty of this charge but sentenced him to life imprisonment.