‘Verdict taken away by false charges, depositions’
Death row war criminal Mir Quasem Ali’s lawyer Khandaker Mahbub Hossain today claimed that the death penalty verdict for his client has been “taken away by false allegations and false depositions.”
"I have nothing to say on what the Appellate Division of the apex court has upheld. But I shouted repeatedly that the verdict has been taken away by bringing false allegations and producing fake evidence before the court,” he said.
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Khandaker Mahbub was talking to the reporters expressing his reaction after the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court dismissed Quasem’s review plea against his death sentence, awarded by a special tribunal two years ago and later upheld by the apex court.
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“The future, the future generation and those who are in the law sectors across the world will scrutinise whether the verdict was justified or not,” he said.
Regarding the verdict, he said that it is not possible for him to state the verdict by the Appellate Division is “not right”.
“According to law, whatever verdict the apex court delivers is the justice,” he added.
Asked about whether his client will seek presidential mercy or not, Khandaker Mahbub declined to make any comment.
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