Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali’s appeal hearing has been enlisted in Tuesday’s cause list of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court.
A four-member bench led by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha of the Appellate Division is set to begin the hearing of death row Jamaat-e-Islami’s key financier Mir Quasem Ali for committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War, according to the SC website.
On the 3rd November of 2014, a commander of para militia force al-Badr during the war, Mir Quasem was awarded capital punishment by the International Crimes Tribunal 2.
The tribunal handed down death penalty in two charges for killing seven people, including one Jasim Uddin, after abduction. He was awarded a total of 72-year imprisonment on other charges of abduction, conspiracy and planning. Four charges were not proved.
On November 30, 2014, Quasem Ali appealed to the Supreme Court against the death sentence.
Mir Quasem joined Islami Chhatra Sangha, then student wing of Jamaat, in 1967 while studying at Chittagong Collegiate School. He later became its Chittagong City unit general secretary.
He played an important role in forming al-Badr Bahini that orchestrated systematic killing of freedom fighters and intellectuals.
