Concluding the hearing on the appeal, a four-member Appellate Division bench, led by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, fixed the date.
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam and deputy attorney general Biswajit Debnath stood for the state while Advocate Khandaker Mahbub Hossain and Advocate S M Md Shahjahan stood for the convicts.
Now defunct International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 on December 23, 2014, sentenced Qaiser to death as the 14 charges out of the total sixteen framed against him were proven beyond any doubt.
The tribunal handed down the death penalty to him in seven charges, life imprisonment in four charges, jail term of 10, 7 and 5 years in three charges and was acquitted in the remaining two charges. But the jail term will naturally get merged into the sentence of death.
The tribunal in its observation also asked the state to initiate a compensation scheme for the rape victims of 1971 and the ‘war babies’ – children of women raped by the Pakistan army or anti-liberation forces.
Qaiser filed an appeal against his conviction on January 19, 2015.