Ganajagaran Mancha last night declared to stage a sit-in programme at the Shahbagh intersection in the capital until the stay on the execution of war criminal Quader Molla was withdrawn.
Though the government directed the Dhaka Central Jail authority to hang the Jamaat-e-Islami assistant secretary general at 12:01am today, Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain last night, in an unprecedented move, halted the process till 10.30am of today, following a defence petition.
The move agitated the platform fuelled by the spirit of Liberation War.
Imran H Sarkar, spokesperson of Ganajagaran Mancha, said: “We were waiting for the execution of the death penalty. What happened in the dark of night that the hanging got blocked?”
The platform was organised, when on February 5, the International Crimes Tribunal gave life term imprisonment instead of death penalty to Molla.
The government amended the tribunal law later that month giving right of appeal to both the sides against the tribunal verdict.
On September 17 the Appellate Division sentenced Molla to death. The full text of the verdict was released following which, the death warrant issued on December 8.
