War criminal Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujaheed will file a petition, challenging the Appellate Division verdict that upheld the death penalty to the Jamaat leader.
Mujaheed’s chief lawyer Khandaker Mahbub Hossain made the statement while expressing his reaction over the verdict on Tuesday morning.
The defence lawyer said they would submit a review petition, challenging Tuesday’s verdict handed down by the Appellate Division.
Earlier in the day, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court upheld the death penalty to war criminal Mujaheed, who had led the systematic killing of intellectuals at the fag end of the 1971 Liberation War as the chief of the notorious al-Badr death squad.
However, the apex court commuted his death penalty to life-term imprisonment for killing people in the Bakchar area of Faridpur in 1971. It also acquitted Mujaheed from the charge for abducting and killing Serajuddin Hossain.
Mujaheed led al-Badr was formed with members of Jamaat’s student wing as an auxiliary force of the Pakistani occupation forces during the war.
On July 17, 2013, Tribunal 2 sentenced the 67-year-old Jamaat secretary general to death after it found him guilty on five out of seven charges brought against him by the prosecution.
He was given death penalty on two charges – for abetting and facilitating the killing of intellectuals and participating in and facilitating the murder of nine Hindu civilians in Faridpur.
