New CJ to lead Mojaheed’s appeal hearing
New CJ to lead Mojaheed’s appeal hearing
The Supreme Court is set tomorrow to start hearing the appeal filed by Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed challenging the death penalty handed down to him for his war crimes.
The appeal has been enlisted for hearing as case No-4 in tomorrow’s cause list of a four-member bench of the Appellate Division of the SC headed by newly appointed Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha.
The three other judges of the bench are Justice Md Abdul Wahhab Miah, Justice Hasan Foez Siddique and Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik.
On December 3 last year, a five-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by incumbent Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain fixed January 14 for hearing the appeal.
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 on July 17, 2013 found the Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Mojaheed guilty of five charges and sentenced him to death on three of those charges.
According to the verdict, Mojaheed led a “death squad” named Al-Badr, which was an auxiliary force of the Pakistani occupation army.
In 1971, Mojaheed was a top leader of Islami Chhatra Sangha, the then student wing of Jamaat.
The convicted war criminal filed the appeal with the SC on August 12, 2013 seeking acquittal of all the charges.
Mojaheed was made a technocrat minister during the BNP-Jamaat-led four-party alliance rule in 2001-2006.