The Bangladeshi Supreme Court has uphold the death sentence of Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami for 1971 alleged war crimes.
A four-member top appeals court bench led by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha read out the summary of the verdict just after 9am on Wednesday.
The other senior judges on the bench were Justice Nazmun Ara Sultana, Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain and Justice Hasan Foez Siddique.
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) had ordered hanging of Nizami on Oct 29, 2014, for alleged war crimes.
The apex court has now upheld that verdict by throwing out Nizami’s appeal.
In 1971, Nizami was the chief of Islami Chhatra Sangha, then student wing of Jamaat. He also headed the Al-Badr militia created by the Pakistan army to suppress the Bengali rebellion.
