Dhaka, Sep 17 (ANI): Bangladesh's Supreme Court on Tuesday sentenced a top Islamic leader Abdul Quader Mollah to death for war crimes during the country's 1971 independence war, rejecting an earlier life sentence imposed by a war crimes tribunal. The tribunal had earlier found Mollah, assistant secretary general of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, guilty of murder, rape and torture on February 05. Mollah's party, the Jamaat, opposed Bangladeshi independence from Pakistan in the 1971 war but it denies accusations that some of its leaders committed murder, rape and torture during the conflict.
