SC includes review petitions of state, defence in hearing list

The Supreme Court yesterday included the review petitions of convicted war criminal Delawar Hossain Sayedee and the government against its verdict in the war crimes case in its hearing list.

The petitions were filed with the SC against its verdict that commuted the death sentence for Sayedee to imprisonment until death. In the petitions, Sayedee sought acquittal and the government sought for his death penalty. 

Yesterday, both the review pleas have come up on serial number 147 of the cause list of the four-member bench of the Appellate Division of the SC, headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, but the apex court could not reach that item for hearing.