Dhaka:  The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) will deliver its judgment on Tuesday on the appeal filed by Jamaat leader Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mujahid challenging his death sentence for crimes against humanity during the Independence War.

Earlier on 27 May, a four-member bench, headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha set the date.

‘No appeal was filed from the state side against tribunal's verdict to Mujahid. The state argued for upholding the death sentence to the Jamaat leader by the tribunal,’Attorney General Mahbu-e-Alam told BSS.

He however expressed his hope that the apex court will uphold his death penalty.

Mujahid filed the appeal on 11 August 2013 against the tribunal's verdict that awarded him death sentence on 17 July in the same year for his crimes against humanity in 1971.

The International Crimes Tribunal-2 found that five out of seven charges against 65-year-old Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid - including the murder of intellectuals and Hindus - were proved beyond doubt.

The SC has so far disposed of three appeals of Jamaat-e-Islami assistant secretary general Abdul Qader Molla, Nayebe Ameer Delwar Hossain Saydee, and its another assistant secretary general Muhammad Kamaruzzaman.

The Supreme Court, on 17 September 2013, revised the sentence to death penalty of Qader Molla following an appeal by the prosecution that considered the International Crimes Tribunal-2 sentence too light. He was later hanged on 12 December 2013.

In its second verdict on appeal, the SC also revised the ICT verdict awarding death sentence to Saydee reducing it to life term imprisonment on 17 September 2014.

The apex court in its third appeal verdict, upheld the death sentence awarded to Kamaruzzaman on 6 April this year. The death sentence was later executed on 11 April.