The international crimes tribunal on Thursday posted for March 27 the hearing in two petitions seeking warrant for arrest of former Bangladesh Nationalist Party lawmaker Abdul Alim and interrogation of the detained Jamaat-e-Islami amir Matiur Rahman Nizami on war crimes charges.
The tribunal, widely known as the war crimes tribunal formed on March 25, 2010 for the trial of war crimes committed during the war for independence in 1971, also set April 19 for hearing another petition for interrogation of the detained BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury on similar charges.
The tribunal registrar, Md Shahinur Islam, at a briefing in his office said that the prosecution had filed the three petitions on Wednesday and the tribunal set the dates for the hearing after the petitions had been placed before it on Thursday morning.
He further said that the tribunal posted for April 19 the hearing in the petition for interrogation of Salauddin as it had earlier set the same date for producing the BNP standing committee member before it in ICT case 4/2010.
The registrar said that a copy of the petition for interrogation of Nizami was served on his lawyers so that they could defend him during the hearing on March 27.
The registrar, however, said that Salauddin was yet to engage any lawyer.
The tribunal of Justice Nizamul Huq, Justice ATM Fazle Kabir and judge AKM Zahir Ahmed on January 17 ordered Salauddin, already in custody, to be detained till April 19 in the case on war crimes charges.
The tribunal had also ordered the investigation agency concerned to complete the probe into ICT case 4/2010 as early as possible.
Earlier on August 2, 2010, the tribunal asked the prison authorities to keep Jamaat amir Matiur Rahman Nizami, secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and assistant secretaries general Mohammad Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Molla, already in custody, in prison on war crimes charges until further orders.
The order for the detention of the Jamaat quartet came in ICT case 1/2010, recorded with the tribunal on July 21, 2010.
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