Court Correspondent :
The hearing on charge framing against war crimes convict and Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi deferred yesterday.
Sayeedi was produced in a Dhaka court on Monday morning in two cases filed for embezzling money from the Islamic Foundation’s Zakat Fund and evading income tax.
Judge Syeda Hossaine Ara, in-charge of Dhaka’s Special Judge’s Court-1, set up at the Alia Madrasa ground in Bakshibazar of Old Dhaka, fixed December
The hearing on charge framing against war crimes convict and Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi deferred yesterday.
Sayeedi was produced in a Dhaka court on Monday morning in two cases filed for embezzling money from the Islamic Foundation’s Zakat Fund and evading income tax.
Judge Syeda Hossaine Ara, in-charge of Dhaka’s Special Judge’s Court-1, set up at the Alia Madrasa ground in Bakshibazar of Old Dhaka, fixed December
28, as the next date. Earlier, lawyers of the accused sought time.
Delwar Hossain Sayeedi has been sentenced unto death for crimes committed during the country’s 1971 War of Liberation.
Besides, he is the lone accused in the income tax evasion case.
Six persons including Delwar Hossain Sayeedi are accused in the money embezzling case.
The other five accused are Mohammad Lutful Haque, former Director of the Islamic Foundation, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, former Chairman of the Mosque Council for Community Advancement, Mia Mohammad Yunus, Chief Secretary of the Bandhujan Parishad, Tofazzal Hossain, former President of the Islamic Social Welfare Center and Md Abdul Haq, Assistant Director of the Islamic Foundation’s Mosque Council.
