Mobarak trial ends, verdict any day

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UNB, Dhaka :
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Monday kept its verdict pending for delivery any day on the war crimes case against Razakar commander Mobarak Hossain of Akhaura, Brahmanbaria.
Closing the case summing-up arguments with law-points from both sides, the three-member tribunal, headed by Justice M Enayetur Rahim, passed the order.
On April 23, 2013, the tribunal indicted detained Mobarak Hossain, a pre-independence Rokan (qualified member) of Jamaat-e-Islami, for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.
The tribunal considered five specific charges against Mobarak like murder, torture, looting, killing and abduction under the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act 1973.
According to the prosecution, accused Mobarak had acted as Razakar commander at makeshift Shuhilpur camp in Brahmanbaria in 1971.
According to the investigator under the ICT, after the independence, Mobarak had worked as organising secretary of Mogra union unit of Awami League in Akhaura, Brahmanbaria for long 16 years and later he was expelled from the post.
Khodeja Begum, whose father was allegedly killed by Mobarak, filed a case with Brahmanbaria court in 2009 which was transferred to the International Crimes Tribunal in 2011.
The tribunal then asked its agency to investigate the matter.

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