Wait until review petition disposal: Kamaruzzaman counsel
Saying that death-row war criminal Muhammad Kamaruzzaman will seek review of his punishment, one of his counsels today expressed hope that the government would not execute him until disposal of the petition.
Kamaruzzaman will file the petition after getting certified copy of the full verdict of the Supreme Court that upheld the death penalty awarded to him by the International Crime Tribunal-2, Khandaker Mahbub Hossain said.
“It will be illegal, if the government executes him before the SC releases its full verdict,” Hossain said while addressing a press conference at the SC Bar Association auditorium in Dhaka.
The four-member bench of the Appellate Division has awarded Kamaruzzaman the capital punishment on charges of mass killing at Sohagpur village, known as Bidhaba Palli (village of widows) in Sherpur by majority view.
“It means that a judge has deferred to the death sentence and Kamaruzzaman may get justice in this dissenting point,” he added.
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