Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters have reportedly captured and executed the judge who sentenced former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein to death.
A Facebook post was attributed to Ibrahim al-Douri, who was a top aide of the fallen Iraqi leader.
A Jordanian MP made a similar claim on his Facebook page.
The Iraqi government has not confirmed the killing, but issued no denial.
Several news media including Times of India, Daily Mail published this report.
Times of India, quoting The International Business Times, reported Judge Raouf Abdul Rahman's capture, sourced it to a Facebook post by al-Douri.
It also reported that the New York Times recently called al-Douri, the force behind the dramatic ISIS offensive.
He was deputy chairman of the Iraqi Command Council until the 2003 US-led invasion.
In 2007, he was named leader of the banned Iraqi Ba'ath Party.
Quoting MP Khalil Attieh's Facebook post, Daily Mail, New York Post and some news websites also said, judge Rahman, who signed the death-by-hanging verdict against Saddam in 2006, was seized as he left Baghdad on June 16 and executed two days later.
The Macedonian International News Agency too put out the news quoting Egyptian daily Al-Mesyroon.
Attieh's post claimed Rahman tried to escape Baghdad disguised in a dancer's costume, but was nabbed.
Judge Rahman was a Kurd and condemned for ordering Saddam's hanging.
He was accused of being biased, for he comes from Halabja, scene of the 1988 poison attack, allegedly under the erstwhile Iraqi leader's orders.
Many of Rahman's kin were said to be victims of that horrific attack. The judge himself was reportedly detained and tortured by Saddam's security agents.
An image uploaded on June 14, 2014 on the jihadist website Welayat Salahuddin allegedly shows militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) captured dozens of Iraqi security forces members.
Rahman took over the Saddam trial in January 2006 after previous incumbent Razgar Amin was criticized for being lenient.
A father of three, Rahman was a graduate of Baghdad University's school of law.
The Daily Mail claimed that in March 2007, Rahman sought asylum in Britain.
He had travelled to UK with his family on a tourist visa. He had apparently feared for his life. But there was no official confirmation of such an asylum appeal.
