"Mir Quasem has requested some time to think about it. We will ask him again tomorrow morning," he told the media on Wednesday outside Gazipur's Kashimpur prison, where the war criminal has been kept. Earlier on Wednesday, the IG prisons told journalists the Supreme Court verdict rejecting the petition to review his death sentence was read out to him at 7:30am. "But he has been tried under a different law formulated for the International Crimes Tribunal and the issue of mercy petition is not clearly mentioned in it." Iftekhar said since seven days are given in regular cases, it can be concluded that Mir Quasem will get the same time.

Source: bd News24 August 31, 2016 18:22 UTC