The Supreme Court’s Appellate Division has fixed May 5 for giving the verdict of condemned war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami’s review plea filed against the death penalty awarded to him.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday had started hearing a petition filed by condemned war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami seeking review of the Apex Court’s judgement that upheld his death penalty for crimes against humanity in the 1971 Liberation War.

Nizami’s lawyer Khandker Mahbub Hossain placed arguments before a four-member bench of the Appellate Division of the SC headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha.

The bench started the day’s proceedings at 9:25pm.

On March 29, this year Nizami’s lawyers filed the petition praying to the apex court for his acquittal.

The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 handed down the death penalty to Nizami on four charges of war crimes, including murdering intellectuals during the war. The verdict was given on on October 29, 2014

The 71-year-old war criminal was also awarded life imprisonment on four other charges.

The SC on January 6, 2016 upheld his death sentence on three charges and life term imprisonment on two other charges.

The ICT had issued the death warrant against him after the SC had released the full verdict on March 15