Dhaka: The International Crimes Tribunal-2 awarded death penalty to Jamaat-e-Islami nayeb-e-ameer Mohammad Abdus Subhan for his crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.

ICT-2 on Tuesday fixed Wednesday for the pronouncement of the verdict.

The three-member tribunal led by Justice Obaidul Hassan announced the death sentence in charges 1, 4 and 6.

The other judges of the tribunal are Justice Mohammad Mujibur Rahman Mia and Justice Shahinur Islam.

Triubunal found him guilty in four out of 9 charges for committing crimes against humanity.

On December 4 last year, the three-member tribunal kept the verdict pending after closing the summing-up arguments on factual and law points from both sides over the case.

The second tribunal on December 4, 2014, had kept the date of the verdict on CAV (curia advisory vult, a Latin legal term meaning the court awaits verdict) after around a year-long hearing of the case came to an end with the conclusion of prosecution and defence rebuttal.

The prosecution in their rebuttal and closing arguments sought death for the Jamaat leader for his 1971 crimes and also compensation for the witnesses those were also the victims of his crimes.

Earlier, a total of 31 prosecution witnesses testified against Subhan, narrating the crimes committed by the Jamaat leader during the war of independence. But none vouched for Subhan, although the tribunal allowed the defence to produce three witnesses.

The 78-year-old Jamaat nayeb-e-ameer was indicted on December 31, 2013, on 9 counts of crimes against humanity by the ICT-1. On March 27, 2014, the ICT-1 transferred the case to ICT-2 suo moto.