The prosecution has expressed satisfaction with the Supreme Court judgement that upheld the death penalty to Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujaheed.
“We are happy as the verdict fulfilled the nation’s longstanding expectation,” prosecutor Turin Afroz told reporters after the verdict was pronounced.
She said despite the apex court having commuted his death penalty to life-term imprisonment on one charge, the prosecution was satisfied with the apex court judgement.
A four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha Tuesday dismissed the appeal petition of the Jamaat assistant secretary general and upheld his death penalty.
The SC bench sat at 9am and pronounced the judgement at the beginning of the court’s proceedings as the verdict delivery was on the top of the Supreme Court’s cause list.
On May 27, the same bench fixed the date after concluding arguments by both defence and state counsels.