Supreme Court upholds death penalty of Salauddin Quader Chowdhury

Dhaka- Supreme Court in these days upheld the loss of life penalty for BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury for the crimes against humanity committed for the duration of the Liberation war of 1971.

Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha suggested the decision within a short span of time after 9:00am this morning. Grounds of the judgment might no longer be identified on account that the entire text was not launched but.

The appeal verdict is more often than not unchanged from that delivered with the aid of a war crimes tribunal two years in the past except that SQ Chowdhury was once acquitted of murdering Satish Chandra Palit – the cost for which he was given 20 years in jail.

The verdict drew appreciation from attorney general Mahbubey Alam at the same time defence and family of Salauddin Quader Chowdhury have stated they will move a overview in opposition to the verdict.

dying upheld in 4 charges: involvement in killing of Nutan Chandra Singha, Awami League chief Mozaffar Ahmed and his son, and two incidents of genocide in Raozan.

  

Twenty years of prison time period upheld for two fees: acts of genocide at Madhya Gohira Hindu Para, acts of genocide, persecution and deportation at Jagotmallo para. Acquittal over Satish Chandra Palit killing in Raozan of Chittagong.

Five years of jail upheld in abducting, confining and torturing Saleh Uddin, who later grew to become vice-chairman of Shahjalal institution of Science and science, and Nizamuddin Ahmed, who later grew to be a journalist. He remained acquitted of 14 other expenditures originally introduced by the prosecution.

- Death upheld in four charges

- 20yrs upheld in 2 charges

- Acquittal over Satish Chandra killing

- 5 yrs upheld for killing 2

Peoples rejoice at Shahbag over the Appellate Division’s verdict upholding BNP leader 

Salauddin Quader Chowdhury’s death sentence.

That is the fifth time the Appellate Division of the SC has delivered a verdict on an enchantment towards a tribunal’s judgment. The three other judges of the bench are Justice Nazmun Ara Sultana, Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain and Justice Hasan Foez Siddique.

On July 7, a four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by using the executive justice fixed in these days for providing the decision on the appeal after listening to it for 13 days.

On October 1, 2013, the international Crimes Tribunal-1 discovered the BNP leader Salauddin, now 66, guilty of 9 of the 23 charges introduced in opposition to him for committing crimes against humanity.

Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, file photo

The BNP leader  on October 29, 2013 appealed to the SC against the decision seeking acquittal on all expenses. Regulation enforcers arrested Salauddin on December sixteen, 2010, at Banani within the capital in connection with torching a vehicle in Moghbazar on June 26. He was once proven arrested on December 19 following a warrant issued by way of the tribunal.