Dhaka: The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court is scheduled to hold hearing on Monday on a petition filed by war crime convict Mir Quasem Ali, pleading to review the apex court judgement that upheld his death sentence for committing crimes against humanity.

Appellate Division Chamber Judge Justice Hasan Foyez Siddique had set the date on 21 June and sent the matter to regular bench following a state petition that pleaded for fixing date to hold hearing on the application of Mir Quasem.

Earlier on 19 June, the Jamaat leader filed the 68-page review plea to the department concerned of the apex court, seeking acquittal on 14 grounds.

On June 6, 2016, the apex court released the full text of its 244-page judgement. The tribunal, which initially sentenced him to death for his 1971 crimes, also issued death warrant on the same day against Mir Quasem, paving way for executing him for his monstrous role in 1971. Mir Quasem was sentenced to death by the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 on 2 November, 2014. He later filed an appeal with the Appellate Division against his conviction.

The apex court on 8 March, 2016, upheld his death, with Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha pronouncing, ‘The sentence (of the tribunal) is maintained.’

Mir Quasem was arrested on 17 June, 2012 from the daily Naya Diganta office in the city’s Motijheel area and was kept at Kashimpur High Security Jail. Hailed from Munshidangi Sutalori of Harirampur upazilla in Manikganj, he joined Islami Chhatra Sangha (ICS), the then student wing of Jamaat, in 1967, when he was a student of Chittagong Collegiate School.

He along with his cohorts from ICS and Jamaat, set up torture camps at different locations in Chittagong town and used to detain, persecute and kill pro-independence people there and dump their bodies to Karnaphuli river.