War crimes convict Salauddin Quader Chowdhury would file a petition with the Supreme Court seeking review of its judgement that had upheld his death penalty.
SQ Chowdhury’s lawyer Advocate Huzzatul Islam confirmed the Dhaka Tribune about the decision of filing review petition Tuesday after meeting the condemned war criminal at Kashimpur Jail-1 in Gazipur.
He said: “We will file the review petition by October 15. During our half-an-hour meeting, the BNP leader pointed out some grounds, which will be mentioned in the petition.”
The meeting started around 3:30pm Tuesday.
Kashimpur Jail Super Subrata Kumar Bala said SQ Chowdhury and his lawyer held the talk amid tight scrutiny.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has upheld a war tribunal’s death sentence to BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
A four-member bench headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha delivered the verdict on July 29.
The International Crimes Tribunal on October 1, 2013 sentenced Salauddin, son of Convention Muslim League leader Fazlul Quader Chowdhury, to death on four out of nine proven charges including the murder of Nutan Chandra Singha and genocides in Unosottor Para, Banik Para and Madhya Gohira. Salauddin and his father had used their Goods Hill residence as a torture camp.
He filed the appeal seeking acquittal on October 29 the same year.
Salauddin, who had served then prime minister Khaleda Zia as her parliamentary affairs adviser during 2001-06, was arrested on December 16, 2010, and shown arrested in the war crimes case on December 19 the same year.
The tribunal indicted him on April 4, 2012.
The convict, however, refuted all the charges claiming that he had been in Pakistan from March 29, 1971 to April 20, 1974, and three other defence witnesses echoed him.
