SC upheld SQ`s death penalty

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence to BNP leader, Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, in charge of war crimes during the Liberation War of 1971.

The four-member bench headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha delivered the verdict on Wednesday morning acquitting SQ in a charge for killing Shatish Chandra Pal. The International Crimes Tribunal-1 sentenced him for 20 years imprisonment on this chargealong with death sentence in four charges.

The charges in which SQ was sentenced to death by the ICT-1are killing philanthropist and Kundeshwari Owsadhalay founder Natun Chandra Singha, Chandra Kumar Paul and 49 others, killing Nepal Chandra Dhar, Monendra Lal Dhar, Opendra Lal Dhar and Anil Baran Dhar and killing the founder of the Chittagong chapter of Awami League Sheikh Mozaffor Ahmed and his son Sheikh Alamgir in different places of Chittagong area during the liberation war period in 1971.