The six-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain passed the adjournment order after concluding the second days' hearing on the appeal.
Anisul Huq, principal state counsel in the case, told the court on Tuesday that the four national leaders were killed on November 3, 1975 in the Dhaka Central Jail as a result of a conspiracy, which was hatched at the Bangabhaban.
He also placed statements of three prosecution witnesses of this case before the court today.
The witnesses are former foreign minister late Abdus Samad Azad, former superintendent of police Mahbub Uddin Ahmed and one Khandakar Asaduzzaman.
He also started placing statement of another prosecution witness Col (retd) Shafayaat Jamil, which will continue on Wednesday.
Earlier, Huq placed statements of seven prosecution witnesses, out of 64.
The six acquitted army personnel are Marfat Ali Shah, Abdul Hashem Mridha, Lt Col (dismissed) Syed Farooq-ur Rahman, Lt Col (retd) Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Maj (retd) Bazlul Huda and Maj (Retd) AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed.
The government filed the appeal with the apex court in 2011.
In 2004, the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court of Dhaka awarded death sentence to three former army personnel and life imprisonment to 12 others in the case.
The metropolitan court had sentenced to death Muslemuddin, Marfat Ali and Abdul Hashem.
And the 12 awarded life imprisonment are Syed Farooq-ur Rahman, Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Bazlul Huda, Lt Col (dismissed) Khondaker Abdur Rashid, Lt Col (relieved) Shariful Haq Dalim, Lt Col (retd) SHMB Noor Chowdhury, AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed, Lt Col (retd) AM Rashed Chowdhury, Maj (relieved) Ahmed Shariful Hossain, Capt (retd) Abdul Majed, Capt (relieved) Kismat Hasem and Capt (relieved) Nazmul Hossain for abetting the killers.
The HC in its verdict on August 28, 2008, upheld the capital punishment of Muslemuddin and acquitted Marfat and Hashem.
It exempted from the case Farooq, Shahriar, Mohiuddin and Bazlul Huda, who were already executed in the Bangabandhu assassination case, and did not say anything about the eight others given life term by the lower court.
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