Staff Reporter :Chief Justice SK Sinha on Tuesday expressed dissatisfaction that the prosecutors and investigators of War Crimes Tribunal (ICT) could not discharge their respective duties efficiently and properly in the war crime cases lodged against the 71 war criminals.He showed his anger in the court during the appeal hearing against Mir Quasem Ali when the Attorney General was making arguments on the day.”We are shocked by the way you are conducting cases of war criminals. It is evident from your documents that Mir Quasem Ali was in Dhaka during the Liberation War,” said SK Sinha.UNB adds: The five-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha, vented their anger when Attorney General Mahbubey Alam was placing arguments during hearing on the appeal of war crimes convict Mir Quasem Ali against his death sentence. Talking to reporters, Mahbubey Alam said as some irrelevance were found during the appeal hearing, the court expressed the dissatisfaction.On February 9, the Supreme Court started hearing the appeal filed by condemned war criminal Mir Quasem Ali challenging the death penalty. Mir Quasem Ali on November 30, 2014 filed the appeal with the SC challenging the death penalty awarded to him by the International Crimes Tribunal-2 for his crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.On November 2 in the same year, the tribunal had condemned Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali to death for his crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.
