Attorney General Mahbubey Alam has expressed satisfaction with the capital punishment handed down to Jamaat-e-Islami’s Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami.
In immediate reaction at the Supreme Court premises, the AG said: “The verdict has reflected people’s expectations. I feel satisfaction.”
The Supreme Court has upheld the war tribunal’s death sentence awarded to former minister and Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
A four-member bench headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha delivered the verdict on Wednesday morning.
The court upheld capital penalty for Nizami in three charges and life imprisonment in two charges. However, it acquitted him of three other charges.
According to the case, Nizami headed al-Badr force during the war as the head of Islami Chhatra Sangha, Jamaat’s erstwhile student wing.