With one more case coming to an end at the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1, the special court formed to hold the trials of war criminals and people accused of crimes against humanity will have to hear as many as 622 cases, that are pending before its probe body.
“We have received a total of 658 allegations and concluded probing 36 of them. At this moment, we are investigating 26 more cases from the hefty list of accusations,” Mohammad Abdul Hannan Khan, chief coordinator of the investigation agency told the agency.
Yesterday the ICT-1 kept the date of the verdict in the trial of Ataur Rahman Noni and Obaidul Haque Taher on CAV, meaning the tribunal will pronounce its judgment over the case any day.
Earlier on January 7, the tribunal sent Emdadul Haque, 78, from Brahmanbaria to jail as he was arrestedthe day earlier following a warrant issued by the ICT-1.
Since their inception in March 25, 2010, and March 22, 2012, the two tribunals, have disposed of 21 cases. “Twenty-one cases have been disposed of by the two tribunals till now. First tribunal disposed of 10 cases, whereas the second one disposed of 11 cases of crimes against humanity. Of these, four convicted warcriminals including Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed have been executed,” said senior prosecutor Barrister Tureen Afroz.
The government, however, on September 15, 2015, made the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 non-functional and reconstituted the first one.
Though formed later, the second tribunal became first-disposing a case sentencing former Jamaat leader Moulana Abul Kalam Azad alias Bachchu Razakar to death on January 21, 2013.
