Dhaka: The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court will deliver its judgment on Monday on the review petition filed by convicted Jamaat-e-Islam leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman against its verdict upholding his death penalty.

A four-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha, fixed the date after hearing arguments from both the prosecution and the defence.

Earlier, on 1 April, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court had deferred the death-row war criminal M Kamaruzzaman’s review petition hearing to 5 April.

The Appellate Division on 9 March had fixed 1 April for hearing on the review petition of Muhammad Kamaruzzaman.

Kamaruzzaman filed a petition on 5 March seeking review of the Appellate Division judgment upholding the death sentence awarded by the tribunal for his crimes against humanity during the War of Independence in 1971.

In 9 May, 2013, the tribunal condemned Jamaat leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, a 1971 operator of infamous Al Badr vigilante outfit, to death for his crimes against humanity, including murder, abduction, torture, rape and mass killing during the Liberation War.

In 3 November 2014, the Supreme Court upheld the verdict of the International Crimes Tribunal 2 that had condemned the Jamaat leader to death.

On 18 February, the International Crimes Tribunal 2 issued a death warrant for Kamaruzzaman after receiving the full text of the Supreme Court verdict that upheld his death penalty for his crimes against humanity during 1971.

On the same day, the prison authorities read out the death warrant to Kamaruzzaman.