Sayedee denied division facilities

The High Court (HC) yesterday refused divisional facilities in prision to convicted war criminal Delawar Hossain Sayedee.

The bench of Justice Syed Muhammad Dastagir Husain and Justice Md Iqbal Kabir rejected the petition filed by him seeking divisional facilities in jail.

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam opposed the writ petition, saying that Sayedee has no right to move such a petition before the HC under the constitution.

On February 2013, ICT-1 sentenced Sayedee to death for killing Ibrahim Kutti and one Bisa Bali in Pirojpur during the War of Liberation in 1971.

Later, in September 2014, the Appellate Division commuted his death sentence to imprisonment until death.