Dhaka: The Supreme Court will deliver its judgment on Wednesday on the appeal filed by condemned convict Salauddin Quader Chowdhury challenging the death penalty handed down against him by the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) 1 for his crimes against humanity during the War of Independence.

A four-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, will deliver the judgement.

The three other members of the bench are Justice Nazmul Ara Sultana, Justice Syed Mahmood Hossain, and Justice Hasan Foez Siddique.

Closing the arguments on the appeal, the four-member bench on 7 July fixed 29 July for delivering the judgment.

On 1 October 2013, ICT 1 found the BNP leader guilty of crimes against humanity during the War of Liberation and condemned him to death.

On 29 October  of the same year, Salauddin Quader Chowdhury filed an appeal with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court against the ICT verdict.

The tribunal indicted Salauddin Quader for his involvement in crimes against humanity on 23 counts under different provisions of section 3 (2) of the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act 1973.

The tribunal found Salauddin Quader, the son of Pakistan Convention Muslim League president Fazlul Quader Chowdhury, guilty of the crimes of genocide at Rauzan and murder of minority Hindu community members, including Nutan Chandra Singh, the founder of Kundeshwari Owsadhalay of Gohira, Awami League leaders and supporters of Bangladesh’s war of independence.

The tribunal also found him guilty of the charge of torture on the accused carried out on captives at his ancestral house ‘Good Hills’ in the port city of Chittagong during the 1971 War of Independence.