The Supreme Court today acquitted Mobarak Hossain in a case filed over crimes against humanity committed in 1971, overturning the death sentence handed down by International Crimes Tribunal-1 in 2014.
Appellate Division of SC also scrapped the ICT-1 verdict.
A five-member bench of Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed today delivered the judgement following an appeal filed by Mobarak challenging the ICT-1 verdict.
Details of the apex court verdict to be known after its full text is released.
Advocate SM Shahjahan and Barrister Imran A Siddiq placed arguments on behalf of Mobarak, while prosecutor Gazi MH Tamim represented the state during hearing of the appeal earlier.