The Attorney General's Office filed the statement alleging that the 2008 High Court verdict acquitting six former army personnel was done without proper examination of documents and evidence.
In the statement, the government prayed to the apex court to uphold the lower court verdict, which had found all the six army personnel guilty.
The Attorney General's Office will pray to the Appellate Division on Sunday to fix a date for hearing the appeal against the HC verdict.
Principal state counsel for the case Anisul Huq on Wednesday sent the statement to the Attorney General's Office to file it with the SC.
The HC in its verdict on August 28, 2008 acquitted the six former military personnel from the charge of killing four national leaders -- Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmad, AHM Qamruzzaman, and Captain Mansur Ali -- inside the Dhaka Central Jail on November 3, 1975.
All of these army personnel were found guilty at the lower court on October 20, 2004. Two of them were given death sentence and the rest life-term imprisonment.
Capital punishment was handed down on Dafadar (dismissed) Marfat Ali Shah and Dafadar (dismissed) Abdul Hashem Mridha. They both are absconding.
The four sentenced to life-term were Lt Col (dismissed) Syed Farooq-ur Rahman, Lt Col (retd) Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Maj (retd) AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed and Maj (retd) Bazlul Huda. They were executed on January 27, 2010 in the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman assassination case.
The lower court in 2004 also gave life-term to eight others. The High Court however did not say anything about them in 2008. The eight are Lt Col (dismissed) Khondaker Abdur Rashid, Lt Col (relieved) Shariful Huq Dalim, Lt Col (retd) SHMB Noor Chowdhury, Lt Col (retd) AM Rashed Chowdhury, Maj (relieved) Ahmed Shariful Hossain, Capt (retd) Abdul Majed, Capt (relieved) Kismat Hasem and Capt (relieved) Nazmul Hossain.
After the Awami League-led government assumed power, it filed a leave to appeal petition in September 2009. The Supreme Court in January next year accepted the petition and directed the two accused -- Marfat and Hashem, who were given capital punishment earlier -- to surrender before the court.
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