SC upholds SQC’s death sentence

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the death sentence for Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader, Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, in war crimes in Chittagong region during the Liberation War of 1971.
The four-member Appellate Division bench chaired by the Chief Justice SK Sinha acquitted Salauddin in one charge, for killing Shatish Chandra Pal, for which earlier the International Crimes Tribunal-1 sentenced him for 20 years imprisonment.
The ICT-1 gave Salauddin death sentence in four charges.
Earlier on July 7, a four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by the chief justice set today for delivering the verdict on the appeal after hearing it for 13 days.
On October 1, 2013, the International Crimes Tribunal-1 sentenced Salauddin to death on four war crimes charges and jailed him for various terms on five other charges.
Salaudin received death sentences for killing philanthropist and Kundeshwari Owsadhalay founder Natun Chandra Singha at Maddhaya Gohira on the morning of April 13, 1971, Chandra Kumar Paul and 49 others at Unsattur Para on the afternoon of April 13, 1971. His death sentence also meant for killing Nepal Chandra Dhar, Monendra Lal Dhar, Opendra Lal Dhar and Anil Baran Dhar at Banikpara in Sultanganj in the early hours of April 13 and killing the founder of the Chittagong chapter of Awami League Sheikh Mozaffor Ahmed and his son Sheikh Alamgir at Khagrachari on the morning of April 17, 1971.

 

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