Dhaka: The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court will hear on Sunday the review petition of the death row convict Jamaat-e-Islami chief Matiur Rahman Nizami.

The petition has been put on the cause list as number 19 for hearing tomorrow at the four-member Appellate Division bench headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha.

It was learnt from the website of the apex court.

The Supreme Court on April 3 adjourned for one week hearing on the review of Nizami upon a time petition seeking six weeks on the ground of having personal problems of Nizami's chief counsel Advocate Khandoker Mahbub Hossain.  

Earlier on March 29 last, Nizami filed the 70-page petition seeking review of his death penalty and pointed out 46 causes to justify the convict's appeal seeking cancellation of the apex court verdict.

The petition came on the 13th day of the stipulated 15 days timeframe for a death row convict to seek reversal of the capital punishments.

A four-member Appellate Division bench headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha on January 6 last upheld the convict's maximum punishment nearly 18 months after the country's International Crimes Tribunal (ICT-BD) handed down Nizami the death penalty.  

He was served the death warrant which reached the suburban Kashimpur Central jail through the ICT-BD a day after the apex court confirmed his sentence. ICT-BD-1 on October 29, 2014, sentenced Nizami, who was also the chief of Jamaat's the then student wing Islami Chhatra Sangha, finding him guilty of eight out of 16 charges brought by the prosecution.  

He was given the death penalty in four of the proven charges including masterminding the executions of a large number of the top Bengali intelligentsia in an apparent effort to take the nation to a state of brainlessness.  

The tribunal in another major charge sentenced him to death for ordering murders of 450 residents of three villages in his home district of Pabna.  

The country so far witnessed executions of four major war crimes convicts —Jamaat leaders Abdul Quader Molla, Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury since the incumbent government took initiatives to bring the war criminals to justice in 2010 in line with its electoral pledges.