Dhaka: The Supreme Court on Monday deferred till 24 August the hearing on the review petition of condemned war criminal Jamaat leader Mir Quasem Ali against its verdict upholding his death penalty for his crimes against humanity during the War of Liberation in 1971.

A four-member bench of the Appellate Division, led by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, passed the order in response to Mir Quasem Ali’s petition for deferring the hearing for two months.

Earlier on 19June, Mir Quasem Ali filed a review petition with the Supreme Court against its verdict upholding his death penalty for his crimes against humanity during the War of Liberation.

Barrister Mir Ahmed Bin Quasem, son of Mir Quasem, submitted a review petition seeking the release of the convict in the war crimes case citing 14 grounds.

On 6 June, the International Crimes Tribunal issued the death warrant for the Jamaat-e-Islami leader hours after the Supreme Court released the full text of its verdict upholding his death penalty.

Earlier on 8 March, the Appellate Division upheld the death penalty for Mir Quasem for his crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.

The International Crimes Tribunal-2 in a verdict had sentenced Mir Quasem Ali, Al-Badr chief in the port city of Chittagong in 1971, to death on 2 November, 2014.

On 30 November, 2014, Mir Quasem filed an appeal before the SC challenging the death penalty.

Among the total 14 charges brought against Mir Quasem for war crimes, the tribunal convicted him on 10 counts of charges and acquitted him from four.

The 64-year-old top Jamaat-e-Islami financier was president of the Chittagong city unit of the Islami Chhatra Sangha, the student wing of the party, till 6 November, 1971.

He was then made general secretary of the East Pakistan Chhatra Sangha.