Dhaka: Death-row convict Jamaat leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman will take more time to decide on seeking presidential clemency.

Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, Jamaat assistant secretary general, will inform his decision to the authorities later, said Shishir Monir, one of Kamaruzzaman’s lawyers who met him in the jail on Thursday morning.

A five-member team of the defendant’s counsels, led by Advocate M Shishir Monir, entered Dhaka Central Jail at about 11:00am following a permission of the jail authorities and held a half an hour meeting with Kamaruzzaman.

The four other lawyers are Ehsan Abdullah Siddiq, Asad Uddin, Motiur Rahman Akanda and Mujibur Rahman.

The jail authorities on Wednesday gave the Jamaat leader permission to talk to his lawyers over seeking mercy petition.

Dhaka Central Jail authorities on Wednesday afternoon received the copy of the Supreme Court verdict rejecting the review plea sought by condemned war criminal M Kamaruzzaman.

International Crimes Tribunal’s deputy registrar Akhtaruzzaman carried the Supreme Court verdict to the jail authorities.

Later, the jail authorities read it out to Kamaruzzaman at the condemned cell.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday rejected Jamaat assistant secretary general M Kamaruzzaman’s review petition against its previous verdict upholding the death penalty handed down by the International Crimes Tribunal 2 for his war crimes.

A four-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha, dismissed the review petition of the Jamaat leader.