The war crimes case against Jamaat-e-Islami nayeb-e-amir AKM Yusuf has been transferred to the International Crimes Tribunal-2 from the ICT-1 on Monday.
The ICT-1 transferred the case responding to a petition filed by the prosecution on June 23.
Arguing on the petition, prosecutor Syed Haider Ali submitted to the tribunal that there were more cases now in the ICT-1 than that of the ICT-2.
He argued that the case should be transferred to ICT-2 for a quick disposal of the trial.
Defence councel M Tajul Islam, however, opposed the petition and said that the conducting defence lawyer, Mizanul Islam, uses wheel chair for which ICT-1 was more convenient.
The prosecution on May 8 had submitted its formal charges against Yusuf on 15 counts of crimes against humanity including genocide, mass killings, murder, abduction, confinement, torture, arson attacks, loot and forcible conversion of Hindus to Islam during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.
Yusuf was arrested from his Dhanmondi residence in the capital on May 12 following the ICT-1 issued an arrest warrant against him.
-With New Age input
