War criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury will file a petition, challenging the Appellate Division verdict that upheld the death penalty to the BNP leader.
Salauddin Quader's lawyer Khandaker Mahbub Hossain made the statement while expressing his reaction over the verdict on Wednesday morning.
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"We will file the review petition after getting the copy of the Supreme Court verdict," Khandaker Mahbub said.
He also alleged that the prosecution witnesses gave false deposition against Salauddin Quader.
Earlier in the day, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court upheld a war tribunal’s death sentence to Salauddin Quader Chowdhury for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
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The International Crimes Tribunal 1 sentenced him to death on four charges. The Supreme Court upheld the judgement. The top court also upheld Salahuddin Quader's conviction in four other charges.
On October 1, 2013, the tribunal found notorious war criminal Salauddin, 66, guilty of nine of the 23 charges brought against him by the prosecution.
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Salauddin, who had served then prime minister Khaleda Zia as her parliamentary affairs adviser during 2001-06, appealed against the tribunal verdict on October 29, 2013.
He was arrested on December 16, 2010, and shown arrested in war crimes case on December 19 the same year. The tribunal indicted him on April 4, 2012.
