Mojaheed to seek review

Shishir Manir. Star file photo.

Death row convict Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed will file a review petition with the Supreme Court against its verdict that upheld the Jamaat-e-Islami leader’s death penalty for his wartime offences, a defence lawyer said today.

Expressing dissatisfaction over the verdict, Shishir Manir said, “The review petition will be filed with the Supreme Court in 15 days after it will release the full verdict.”

He further said, “I am of the view that the prosecution miserably failed to produce any credible eye witness to show that Mojaheed was directly involved in commission of offenses in 1971.”

“Although Mojaheed had been convicted as the chief of a para-militia force, the investigating officer admitted that Mojaheed was not named in the list of any para-militia forces specifically Al-Badar,” he said.

Meanwhile, Mojaheed’s son Ali Ahmed Mabrur said, “We did not get justice at the Tribunal. We had hoped for justice at the Supreme Court but we were deprived of justice here as well. We are aggrieved.”

Mabrur was expressing his reaction on the SC premises after the apex court delivered its verdict this morning.