Review petitions on Sayedee's war crimes verdict on SC cause list

Two review petitions filed regarding the verdict of war crimes convict Delawar Hossain Sayedee have appeared on the cause list of the Supreme Court’s Appellate Division. The review petitions of the government and the Jamaat leader is listed at serial 147 on the cause list of Monday, according to Supreme Court’s website. Sayedee, known as “Deilya Razakar” in 1971, was given the death penalty on February 28, 2013 after the war crimes tribunal found him guilty of committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War. He was sentenced to death for killing Ibrahim Kutti and one Bisa Bali in Pirojpur. The tribunal did not deliver sentence on the six other proven charges. The Jamaat-e-Islami leader appealed against the tribunal verdict seeking acquittal while the state pleaded for sentence on the six other proven charges. On September 17, 2014, the Appellate Division’s five-member bench headed by the then Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain delivered its short verdict based on majority judgement. The full verdict was published on December 31, 2015. According to the rules, a review petition has to be filed within 15 days after the full verdict is published.