Death row convict Jamaat leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman has sought more time from the jail authorities to decide whether he will seek presidential clemency, according to his lawyers who met him at Dhaka Central Jail today.
After a good thought, the Jamaat assistant secretary general will inform his decision to the authorities concerned later, Shishir Manir, one of his lawyers who meet him the jail, said quoting Kamaruzzaman.
Manir was talking to reporters after he along with four other lawyers held a half-an-hour meeting with him inside the jail.
The four other lawyers are: Shishir Manir, Ehasan A Siddique, Asad Uddin, Matiur Rahman Akando and Majibur Rahman.
As fixed by the prison authorities, the five counsels entered the jail at 10:50am, Muzahedul Islam Shaheen, one of the defence lawyers, told.
The jail authorities yesterday gave the Jamaat leader permission to talk to his lawyers over seeking mercy petition, the last option for the war crimes convict to save his life.
The death row convict desired to speak to his counsels after the Dhaka Central Jail authorities communicated to him in the evening the Supreme Court verdict that dismissed his review petition against the death penalty.
Around 3:00pm yesterday, the SC released the full text of the verdict that rejected the review petition of Kamaruzzaman, assistant secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami.
He filed the petition on March 5 against the apex court's judgment that upheld his capital punishment. On Monday, a four-member SC bench led by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha dismissed the review petition.
Kamaruzzaman, key organiser of infamous Al-Badr force in greater Mymensingh in 1971, was sentenced to death by the International Crimes Tribunal-2 in May 2013 for committing crimes against humanity, including mass killings in Sohagpur of Sherpur, during the Liberation War.
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