SC finishes listening to Mollah verdict

Additional Attorney General MK Rahman yesterday finished reading to the Supreme Court the war crimes verdict against Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Mollah as the court was hearing a government appeal seeking the death penalty for the convict.
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 jailed Mollah for life on February 5 after he was found guilty of committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
But the government filed an appeal on March 3 seeking that he be sentenced to death.
The additional attorney general said five specific charges of killing hundreds of people in 1971 were proved beyond doubt against the Jamaat leader. He was directly and indirectly involved in killing either civilians or freedom fighters, he told the apex court.
Rahman also mentioned the charges of Mollah's involvement in killing pro-liberation poet Meherun Nesa, her mother and two brothers, Hazrat Ali Laskar and his family members, Khandakar Abu Taleb and 344 other people at Mirpur in 1971.
The apex court was hearing the government's petition for the fourth day yesterday. It will further hear the appeal on Sunday.
Yesterday, the additional attorney general also read out the charges of killing hundreds of unarmed people at Keraniganj, which was not proved at the tribunal against Mollah.