A prosecution witness who gave deposition against Jamaat-e-Islami leader
Delwar Hossain Sayedee, who was sentenced to death in February for war
crimes charges, died on Tuesday two days after he was stabbed by
miscreants early Sunday.
Mostafa Haoladar, 58, the eighth witness against Sayedee, died in Dhaka Medical College Hospital about
2.00am on Tuesday, DMCH police outpost inspector Mozammel Haque said.
Mostafa sustained stab injuries as the
Miscreants broke into the room of Mostafa in his village house at
Parerhut in Pirojpur about 2:00am and stabbed him and his wife Hasina
Begum, the Zianagar police officer-in-charge, Kamruzzaman, said.
Both of the injured were sent to Pirojpur General Hospital and then to
Khulna Medical College Hospital from where Mustafa was sent to the DMCH.
The victim’s son Hafizur Rahman said that the miscreants had also hit Mostafa in the eye and forehead with a crowbar.
Hasina alleged that the people against whom Mostafa had given deposition
were responsible for her husband’s murder. ‘They had continuous
threatened us us since my husband had given his deposition against their
brutality. Now I want the judgement and our family’s security.’
The victim’s brother Amir Hossain said that Mostafa had faced threats for the past few days.
The body was sent to their village.
The International Crimes Tribunal sentenced Sayedee to death on February
28 for crimes against humanity committed during the independence war
in 1971.
The defence counsel chief, Abdur Razzaq, condemned the attack on a
prosecution witness saying that this cowardly attack would harm the rule
of law.
‘It is the duty of the state to ensure security of all prosecution and defence witnesses,’ he said in a statement. (source)