The wife of Abdul Quader Mollah, Begum Sanowar Jahan, in a statement to the press on Tuesday deplored the enhancement of verdict in the supreme court of Bangladesh awarding her husband death penalty and termed this as unprecedented. Abdul Quader Mollah, assistant secretary general of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami was earlier awarded imprisonment for life in the Intrnational Crimes Tribunal for crimes against humanity committed during the 1971 war of Liberation.Begum Sanowar Jahan said her husband stayed at his home in Faridpur district during the war and came to study in Dhaka University in 1972 as a resident student of Shahidullah Hall. Quader Mollah, was teacher at the Udayan School in Dhaka University campus in 1974-75, vice principal of the Rifles College in 1977, and elected vice president of the Dhaka Union of Journalists in 1982 and 1983, she said adding no case was filed against her husband for any role against Bangladesh’s war of liberation between 1971 and 2010. She termed the case as politically motivated and the judgment in trial court based not on eye-witnesses.
She said she had respect for the highest court, but was convinced that they were deprived of justice. We will definitely get justice in the after world, she said urging the people to stand against political conspiracies, says a press release issued on Tuesday.
