War criminal Mir Quasem Ali will take decision about filling a petition challenging the Appellate Division verdict that upheld the death penalty to the Jamaat-e-Islami leader, after getting the full verdict.
Mir Quasem's counsel Khandaker Mahbub Hossain made the statement while expressing his reaction over the verdict on Tuesday morning.
"We will decide about the review petition after getting the full verdict of the Appellate Division," he said.
"I do not want to make any comment on the verdict as the apex court has delivered it," Mahbub added.
The Supreme Court has upheld the war tribunal’s death sentence awarded to Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali for committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.
A five-member bench headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha upheld death penalty for Mir Quasem in one charge. However, it acquitted him of three other charges.
The Jamaat-e-Islami leader was sentenced to death by the International Crimes Tribunal on November 2, 2014.
Al-Badr commander Quasem, now a top financier of the party that opposed Bangladesh’s birth, played a key role behind the formation of al-Badr and led the atrocities at its torture camps in the city. Quasem appealed against the judgment on November 30, 2014 seeking acquittal.