Dhaka: International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 on Thursday has issued death warrant against Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mohammad Kamaruzzaman for his crimes against humanity during the Liberation War 1971.

Dhaka central jail senior jail super Farman Ali said that jail authorities received the death warrant of Kamaruzzaman and further legal steps will be taken according to the court’s order.  

Tribunal’s acting deputy registrar Aftabuzzaman along with despatch rider Sirajul Islam and four others went to Dhaka Central Jail with the death warrant at about 1:00pm.

Earlier on Wednesday, the Appellate Division released the full text of its judgement upholding death sentence given by ICT-2.

The four-member panel of AD, headed by Justice (current Chief Justice) Surendra Kumar Sinha, signed on the text in the morning and the department concerned of the Supreme Court then released the 577-page verdict.

According to the jurists, Kamaruzzaman, now the senior assistant secretary general of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami will get 15-day time to file a review petition against the judgement.

The ICT-2 on 9 May 2013 sentenced him to death and the AD on 3 November 2014, upheld maximum punishment for the Al-Badr leader.