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1971 crimes: Bangladesh Supreme Court upholds Kamaruzzaman death penalty

India Blooms News Service | | Nov 03, 2014, at 09:32 pm

#Supreme Court # 1971 crimes #Jamaat e Islami leader # Muhammad Kamaruzzaman

Dhaka, Nov 3 (IBNS): Bangladesh's Supreme Court on Monday upheld the death penalty awarded to 1971 war criminal and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman.

However, for another charge the court commuted his death penalty to life imprisonment.

The verdict upholding the death sentence was passed by a panel of four judges of the Supreme Court led by Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha.

He was convicted of killing 164 people at a village in Sherpur during the Liberation War when Bangladesh attained freedom from the rule of Pakistan.

Muhammad Kamaruzzaman is the senior assistant secretary general of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami.

On 9 May 2013 the International Crimes Tribunal had sentenced him to death after it found Kamaruzzaman guilty of crimes against humanity including genocide, killing, rape, looting, arson, and deportation of people during the Bangladesh Liberation War.

Earlier on Sunday, a special tribunal handed death penalty to senior leader of Jamaat- e-Islami party and Bangladeshi media tycoon Mir Quasem Ali.

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