"The judgement will be pronounced on January 6," attorney general Mahbubey Alam quoted chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha as saying wrapping up hearing on Nizami's plea to review his death penalty, originally handed down by a special tribunal and subsequently upheld by the apex court itself.
Alam in his concluding remarks sought the court to maintain its earlier verdict against 73-year-old Nizami for committing crimes against humanity and siding with invading Pakistani troops during the liberation war, when he led the much castigated Al-Badr militia force.
Nizami is the last remaining top perpetrators of crimes against humanity whose fate now hangs in the balance as Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) in October, 2014 sentenced him to death, a verdict which the Supreme Court subsequently upheld.
Nizami then sought to get the apex court verdict reviewed by itself in his last ditch effort to evade the gallows.
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"It would be a failure of justice, unless he is handed down the death penalty," the ICT commented as it handed down Nizami the capital punishment last year convicting him of "superior responsibility" as the chief of Al-Badr which is blamed for a systematic campaign to massacre a large number of top intellectuals just ahead of Bangladesh's war victory.
Bangladesh so far executed four war crimes convicts since the belated process to expose to trial the top Bengali perpetrators of 1971 atrocities in line with the electoral commitment of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2008.
Bangladesh says three million people were killed during the nine-month liberation war against Pakistan in 1971.