Bangladesh: Justice Jahangir’s village home attacked

Dhaka, Dec 14 (The New Age): Miscreants hurled crude bombs at the village home of Justice Jahangir Hossain, a member of International Crimes Tribunal -1, at Mehedipur under Senbagh upazila in Noakhali early Friday.
None of the house inmates was, however, injured in the bomb attack. Justice Jahangir now lives in Dhaka.
The Senbagh police officer-in-charge, Saiful Islam Bhuiyan, said that unidentified miscreants hurled crude bombs at the house of Justice Jahangir at around 12:45am where his brother Shahadat Hossain lives in.
The attackers also threw brick bats at the house and later fled the place sensing the presence of police, deployed at the house for ensuring security, he said.
The OC said that a case was lodged with the police station, but none was arrested.
Shahadat Hossain said that all of his family members escaped unhurt.
Their house came under attack, only a day after an attack on the house of the tribunal’s presiding judge, Justice ATM Fazle Kabir, in Chapainawabganj.
In the early hours of Wednesday, Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha’s ancestral home at Tilakpur in Kamalganj of Moulvibazar also came under arson attack.
Both Justice Fazle Kabir and Justice Jahangir Hossain are the judges of ICT, set up to try the suspects of war crimes committed during the liberation war in 1971.
Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha is a judge of the Appellate Division which is hearing appeal petitions related to the war crimes case verdicts delivered by ICTs.