The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) on Sunday set February 25 for hearing an appeal filed by the ICT prosecution seeking enhancement of the sentences of Sheikh Hasina and Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal from imprisonment till death to death in a crimes against humanity case over the July Mass Uprising. Appellate Division Judge in Chamber Justice Md Rezaul Haque fixed the date, forwarding the matter to apex court full bench for hearing on that day. The tribunal sentenced both Sheikh Hasina and Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal to imprisonment till natural death for three counts of charge number one. It also found them guilty of three counts of charge number two and sentencedthem to death. The prosecution, however, filed a petition, pleading to enhance their sentences of imprisonment till natural death, awarded under charge number one, to death on eight grounds.
