Bangladesh's apex court today upheld the life sentence given to Islamist preacher for committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War against Pakistan.<br/><br/>The Supreme Court dismissed both the pleas filed by the state and the defence and stood by its earlier judgement to jail war criminal and 77 year old Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, until his death.<br/><br/>A five-member bench led by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha delivered the verdict today after a two-day hearing.<br/><br/>The trial of Sayedeei began at the International Crimes Tribunal-1 in 2011 and a verdict was pronounced in 2013.<br/><br/>Of the 20 charges against him, Sayedeei was given the death sentence for the murders of Ibrahim Kutti and Bisabali, and for setting fire to Hindu households in Pirojpur in 1971.The Supreme Court in 2014 commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment.