Keeping its verdict pending for two-and-half months, the International Crimes Tribunal-2 is set to deliver on Wednesday the judgment on the war crimes trial of Maulana A Sobhan, a top figure of Jamaat-e-Islami, now in custody.The tribunal set the date on Tuesday.On December 4 last year, the three-member tribunal kept the verdict pending Al Badr and Al Shams, vigilante outfits in Pabna district during the Liberation War in 1971.The tribunal on December 31, 2013 framed charges against Maulana Sobhan on nine counts of crimes against humanity, including genocide, during the Liberation War under sections 3(2) and 4(1) (2) of the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act 1973.On September 20, 2012, Sobhan, the number three man in the Jamaat leadership hierarchy, was held by members of an army intelligence agency at the Bangabandhu Bridge toll plaza in Tangail in a case of violence. Later, the accused was handed over to the police.According to the prosecution, it received allegations like genocide, arson and looting perpetrated by Sobhan, the then leader of Pabna Peace Committee (collaborator) and Pabna district Jamaat ameer, in collaboration with the Pakistan occupation forces, including Razakar, Al Badr and Al Shams, during the war.
