UNB, Dhaka :
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Thursday once again deferred to December 18 for further hearing on apology for contempt of court as offered by detained contemnor barrister AKM Fakhrul Islam, counsel for the condemned war crimes convict BNP stalwart Salauddin Quader Chowdhury.
The three-member tribunal, headed by Justice M Enayetur Rahim, passed the order in presence of Fakhrul’s counsel Alf-e-Sani.
Barrister Fakhrul has been in custody in connection with a case filed over leaking the draft of the ICT verdict on his client SQ Chowdhury.
On January 14, 2013, the tribunal show-caused Fakhrul to explain why contempt proceedings should not be drawn against him for the petition seeking explanation from the tribunal members whether they were privy to alleged skypegate over conducting the trial, terming mala fide the petition to deliberately malign the tribunal judges and create confusion about the judges in public mind.
On December 11, 2012, first chairman of the ICT-1 Justice M Nizamul Huq resigned in the wake of controversy over his judicial conduct in running the war crimes trial as he had allegedly been receiving advice regularly through email communication and skype conversations with Dr Ahmed Ziauddin, a Brussels-based Bangladeshi expert on international war crimes. Bangla daily Amar Desh made the skypegate public.
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Thursday once again deferred to December 18 for further hearing on apology for contempt of court as offered by detained contemnor barrister AKM Fakhrul Islam, counsel for the condemned war crimes convict BNP stalwart Salauddin Quader Chowdhury.
The three-member tribunal, headed by Justice M Enayetur Rahim, passed the order in presence of Fakhrul’s counsel Alf-e-Sani.
Barrister Fakhrul has been in custody in connection with a case filed over leaking the draft of the ICT verdict on his client SQ Chowdhury.
On January 14, 2013, the tribunal show-caused Fakhrul to explain why contempt proceedings should not be drawn against him for the petition seeking explanation from the tribunal members whether they were privy to alleged skypegate over conducting the trial, terming mala fide the petition to deliberately malign the tribunal judges and create confusion about the judges in public mind.
On December 11, 2012, first chairman of the ICT-1 Justice M Nizamul Huq resigned in the wake of controversy over his judicial conduct in running the war crimes trial as he had allegedly been receiving advice regularly through email communication and skype conversations with Dr Ahmed Ziauddin, a Brussels-based Bangladeshi expert on international war crimes. Bangla daily Amar Desh made the skypegate public.
