Court Correspondent :
The prosecution yesterday pressed eight charges against nine persons in a case filed for allegedly committing crimes during the Liberation War of 1971.
Prosecutor Abul Kalam submitted the formal charges with statements of prosecution witnesses and other documents before the International Crimes Tribunal-1 (ICT-1). The tribunal fixed July 10 to decide whether it will take the charges into cognizance or not.
According to the investigators the accused were “involved” in eight crime incidents when at least 101 people were killed, 10 to 13 people were injured, a woman was raped and 110 to 112 houses were torched in Muktagachha and Mymensingh Sadar. Of the eight charges, three were related with genocide, one with rape and others with murder and other crimes.
