Sayedee to be produced before tribunal Aug 10
The International Crimes Tribunal on Wednesday asked the authorities concerned to produce Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee before it on August 10 in connection with 1971 genocide.
The three-member tribunal headed by Justice Nizanul Huq passed the order as the prosecution on August 2 submitted the second complaint case against Sayedee, another detained Jamaat leader, for committing genocide during the Liberation War in 1971.
The crimes tribunal also fixed August 10 to hold the hearing on the petition filed by the prosecution seeking its direction to issue arrest warrant against Sayedee.
The tribunal also hold hearing on the six petitions filed by the lawyers for four other top Jamaat big shots on August 10.
In their first move on August 2, the defence filed three petitions before the tribunal and prayed for withdrawal of the arrest warrants against Jamaat Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami, its Secretary General Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojahid, and two Senior Assistant Secretaries General Muhammad Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Molla.
They also sought certified copies of the prosecution's complaint petition, all order sheets and relevant documents.
The defence filed the remaining three petitions before the tribunal on August 3.
One petition was filed seeking stay of the proceedings of the tribunal, another for releasing the detained four Jamaat big wigs from custody while the other for sending back the records of the two cases--one filed with Pallabi Police Station and another in Keraniganj against the four -- to the court concerned which a Dhaka court said it has already sent those to the crimes tribunal.
The war crimes prosecution filed the case against Sayedee under the International Crimes Tribunal Act.
In the case, the prosecution charged Sayedee with committing genocide and crimes against humanity and peace during the Liberation War in 1971.
Earlier, on August 2, the tribunal in its first ruling ordered to keep the four detained top Jamaat leaders--Nizami, Mojahid, Kamaruzzaman and Molla--in jail in connection with war crimes during the 1971 Liberation War.
The war crimes prosecution filed the case on July 25 under the International Crimes Tribunal Act, and prayed for arrest warrants against the four.
The tribunal on July 26 issued arrest warrants against the four Jamaat leaders. But later, it received a police report that the order could not be executed, as the four were already in prison in different cases.
On July 29, the court directed the prison authorities to produce the Jamaat leaders before it on August 2.
Justices ATM Fazle Kabir and AKM Zaheer Ahmed are the other two members of the tribunal.
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