The government will now start the process of executing condemned war criminal Kamaruzzaman, as the Supreme Court has released the full judgment upholding his death penalty, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam has said.
As part of the execution process, the government will now fix a date for the execution of the Jamaat leader, he said to journalists at his office in the Supreme Court on Wednesday after the release of the verdict.
He, however, added the execution process will be suspended if the convict files a review petition with the SC challenging his death sentence.
The Jamaat leader will get 15 days from today to file the review petition.
The SC will now send its full judgment to the International Crimes Tribunal 2, which handed down the death penalty against the Jamaat leader for committing crimes against humanity in 1971.
After receiving this, the tribunal will issue a death warrant. The death warrant copy will be sent to the jail authorities through the district magistrate. The jail authorities will inform the condemned war criminal Kamaruzzaman.
The convict can then seek the president’s clemency over his death penalty. If he does not do so, the jail authorities will execute the verdict.
On May 9 last year, the International Crimes Tribunal sentenced Kamaruzzaman to death for committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.
He appealed against the judgement after a month.
On November 3, 2014, the Appellate Division upheld the death penalty.
Kamaruzzaman was an al-Badr leader in 1971. He was also a top leader of the greater Mymensingh Islami Chhatra Sangha, the then student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, and was also the office secretary of East Pakistan Islami Chhatra Sangha.
