BSS, Dhaka :
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 on Wednesday sent former Jamaat lawmaker and party’s executive committee leader Hamidur Rahman Azad to jail as he surrendered before the court after being convicted for contempt of court in 2013.
“Azad appeared at around 11.10am and surrendered before the tribunal through his lawyer Abdus Subhan Tarafdar. The tribunal later sent him to jail,” a court official said.
The now defunct ICT-2 on June 9, 2013, sentenced three leaders of Jamaat-e- Islami including Azad for contempt of court by making “provocative” and “derogatory” remarks about it.
The three leaders were party’s the then Acting Secretary General Rafikul Islam Khan,Nayeb-e-Ameer of party’s Dhaka wing Hamidur Rahman Azad and Assistant Secretary of Dhaka city Jamaat Selim Uddin.
Among them, the second tribunal handed down three- months’ imprisonment to Rafikul Islam Khan and Hamidur Rahman Azad.
The tribunal also fined them Taka 3 thousand each, in default, to suffer two weeks more imprisonment.
However, the same tribunal fined Selim Uddin Taka one thousand and asked him to sit at the court during the whole time of the proceedings on that day.
The tribunal came down with lenient punishment to him as he sought unconditional apology from the tribunal. But the other two were on run and the tribunal tried them in absentia.
The tribunal passed the order following the three’s “provocative” and “derogatory” remarks about it in different rallies on February 4 and 5, 2013.
On February 7, the second tribunal in a suo moto order, summoned three Jamaat leaders to explain their warning of ‘civil war’, and controversial comment on tribunal.
On March 8, law enforcers arrested Selim Uddin and produced him before the tribunal on March 10, where he was granted bail after seeking unconditional apology for the first time.
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 on Wednesday sent former Jamaat lawmaker and party’s executive committee leader Hamidur Rahman Azad to jail as he surrendered before the court after being convicted for contempt of court in 2013.
“Azad appeared at around 11.10am and surrendered before the tribunal through his lawyer Abdus Subhan Tarafdar. The tribunal later sent him to jail,” a court official said.
The now defunct ICT-2 on June 9, 2013, sentenced three leaders of Jamaat-e- Islami including Azad for contempt of court by making “provocative” and “derogatory” remarks about it.
The three leaders were party’s the then Acting Secretary General Rafikul Islam Khan,Nayeb-e-Ameer of party’s Dhaka wing Hamidur Rahman Azad and Assistant Secretary of Dhaka city Jamaat Selim Uddin.
Among them, the second tribunal handed down three- months’ imprisonment to Rafikul Islam Khan and Hamidur Rahman Azad.
The tribunal also fined them Taka 3 thousand each, in default, to suffer two weeks more imprisonment.
However, the same tribunal fined Selim Uddin Taka one thousand and asked him to sit at the court during the whole time of the proceedings on that day.
The tribunal came down with lenient punishment to him as he sought unconditional apology from the tribunal. But the other two were on run and the tribunal tried them in absentia.
The tribunal passed the order following the three’s “provocative” and “derogatory” remarks about it in different rallies on February 4 and 5, 2013.
On February 7, the second tribunal in a suo moto order, summoned three Jamaat leaders to explain their warning of ‘civil war’, and controversial comment on tribunal.
On March 8, law enforcers arrested Selim Uddin and produced him before the tribunal on March 10, where he was granted bail after seeking unconditional apology for the first time.
