B'desh tightens security ahead of SC hearing on war criminals

November 02, 2015 11:46

Bangladesh authorities today tightened security across the country fearing violence ahead of the Supreme Court hearing on final appeal against two opposition leaders sentenced to death for war crimes committed during 1971 independence war.

"We have intensified security across the country," a senior police officer told PTI. The officer said the move comes as "general precaution" as followers of death row convicts - Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid and opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury - could create an "anarchic situation" after the final judgement.

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