Court Correspondent : The Dhaka Cyber Tribunal on Sunday noon deferred its judgement in the case filed for alleged leaking the draft verdict of the International Crimes Tribunal-1 that awarded death sentence to BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury for his crime against humanity during the War of Liberation. Judge NM Shamsul Alam deferred the date to September 15 as the writing of the verdict is yet to be completed said, Md Nazrul Islam Shamim, Special Public Prosecutor of the tribunal. Earlier on August 14, the court deferred the pronouncement of the verdict in the case till August 28. The accused in the case are: Salauddin Quader’s wife Farhat Quader Chowdhury, his son Hummam Quader Chowdhury, his manager Mahbubul Ahsan, lawyer Barrister AKM Fakhrul Islam, two staff of the ICT-1 Nayan Ali and Faruq Hossain and Barrister Fakhrul’s associate advocate Mehedi Hasan. The last accused is on the run since the beginning of the case. The court also sent four accused- Fakhrul, Faruq, Nayan and Mahbub to the jail after they appeared before the court. On February 15, a Dhaka court framed charges against seven persons, including the wife, a son and counsel Fakhrul in the case, after a dozen of dates, when the defence lawyers has sought time. DB Inspector M Shajahan submitted the charge sheet of the case to the Dhaka’s Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court against the seven accused on August 28, 2014. On October 1, 2013, ICT-1 sentenced BNP Standing Committee member Salauddin Quader Chowdhury to death for his crime against humanity during the Liberation War of 1971 and the sentence was executed on November 22 last year. The leakage case docket says, some parts of the draft in ICT’s case Salauddin Quader Chowdhury’s verdict were found posted on the internet several hours before pronouncement of the verdict. Later, showing the copy of the draft verdict, Salauddin’s wife and son allegedly raised a complaint that the verdict was originated from the Law Ministry. On October 4, the present case was filed with Shahbagh Police Station Under Sections 57 and 63 of Information and Communication Technology Act.
