Ashutosh Sarkar

Seventeen long years have passed since the BDR carnage, but neither the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government nor Prof Muhammad Yunus-led interim government took any extensive steps to settle the appeals in the Appellate Division, leaving the death penalties of 139 convicts unexecuted.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the full text of a judgement has criticised the High Court Division for granting bail to the Land Ministry’s former administrative officer Md Kutub Uddin Ahmed.

Disposal of the appeals filed by seven convicted war criminals against their death sentences is taking time as the Supreme Court has many other urgent and important cases to deal with.