L-R: Jamaat chief Motiur Rahman Nizami, Secretary General Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojahid and senior assistant secretaries general Muhammad Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader MollahThe International Crimes Tribunal on Sunday fixed July 26 for hearing a petition submitted by the prosecution seeking its order to show the four detained Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami bigwigs arrested or detained for committing crimes against humanity.
The four leaders are Jamaat chief Motiur Rahman Nizami, Secretary General Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojahid and senior assistant secretaries general Muhammad Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Mollah.
In a case filed against the accused on charge of committing war crimes, registrar of the tribunal Mohammad Shahinur Islam told reporters that the tribunal will sit at 10:30am on Monday for hearing the petition submitted by the prosecution.
He said the investigation agency of the International Crimes Tribunal started investigation into a case filed on July 21 this year in which Nizami, Mojahid, Kamaruzzaman and Mollah have been made accused.
The tribunal has received a case filed with Pallabi Police Station against the four accused on charge of killing 345 freedom fighters in Mirpur during the Liberation War in 1971.
The registrar said the chief prosecutor mentioned in the petition that arrest or detention of the accused is inevitable for fair and effective investigation of the case.
Sunday morning, the prosecution filed a petition with the International Crimes Tribunal, seeking its directive to show the four detained top Jamaat leaders arrested, in connection with crimes committed against humanity.
"We have submitted a petition to the tribunal through its registrar, seeking necessary order so that the four Jamaat big shots can be kept confined and the investigation agency can smoothly conduct investigation into the allegations against them of committing genocide, killing, rape, torture, looting, arson during the Liberation War in 1971," Prosecutor Golam Arif Tipu told reporters at a briefing.
Prosecution sources said they will submit petition to the tribunal soon for necessary order to show some other Jamaat leaders arrested or detained on the same charges.
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