Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee will file a plea seeking review of the Supreme Court verdict that commuted his death sentence to imprisonment till death.
The decision came a day after the state filed the plea seeking death for the Jamaat leader on five grounds, reports BSS.
"We are going to file the petition, pleading for acquitting him of all the charges," said Masud Sayedee, son of the Jamaat Nayeb-e-Ameer.
Masud said their counsels -- advocates Matiur Rahman Akand, Eusuf Ali and Saifur Rahman -- met his father at jail on Wednesday.
On February 28, 2013, the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) 1 convicted Sayedee of crimes against humanity and sentenced him to death.
He was found guilty in eight of the 20 charges which included murder, rape, arson, loot, abduction and persecution in different places of Pirojpur.
Sayedee filed the appeal against the death verdict on March 28, 2013.
On September 17, 2014, the Appellate Division sentenced Sayedee to imprisonment till natural death, modifying the verdict of the ICT 1.
The Apex Court released the full verdict on December 31, 2015, and copies of the verdict reached the tribunal on January 3.