The International Crimes Tribunal-2 is set to deliver its 4th verdict on the war crimes charges against Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojahid. The two-member tribunal led by Justice Obaidul Hassan, on Tuesday said the judgement on the war crimes charges against the detained Jamaat leader Muhammad Mojahid, would be declared on Wednesday. This will be the sixth verdict on the war crimes committed during the liberation war in 1971. And it will be the fourth judgment for International Crimes Tribunal-2, since it was set on March 22, 2012.
Earlier, on June 5, the tribunal kept the Mojaheed case as CAV (Curia Advisari Vult, a Latin legal term meaning verdict would be delivered anytime).
The Jamaat leader Mojahid is facing seven counts of crimes against humanity charges including genocide, murder, torture, conspiracy, planning, incitement and complicity in atrocities committed during the war of independence of Bangladesh.
Earlier, the ICT-2 sentenced former Jamaat member Abul Kalam Azad, also known as Bachchu Razakar who is still in hiding, to death on January 21, Jamaat assistant secretary general Abdul Quader Molla to imprisonment for life term on February 5 and Jamaat leader Mohammad Kamaruzzaman to death on May 9.
Another tribunal, the ICT-1 yesterday awarded 90 years’ imprisonment to the former Jamaat chief Ghulam Azam and on February 28 awarded death sentence for Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee.
At a press briefing on the ICT premises, prosecutor Mokhlesur Rahman Badal said that all the seven charges against Mojahed had been proved beyond doubt and they hoped that the tribunal would deliver their ‘long expected’ verdict.
Mojahid’s chief defence counsel, Abdur Razzaq, on the other hand, during its closing arguments, had said that the prosecution failed to prove the charges against Mojahid and hoped that Mojahid would be acquitted from all the charges.
The prosecution brought 17 witnesses to prove the charges against Mojahid. Although the tribunal on April 22 allowed three defence witnesses to defend Mojahid, the defence produced only Mojahid’s son Ali Ahmad Mabrur to defend his father.
According to the prosecution, born in Paschim Khabaspur in Faridpur town in 1948, Mojahid acted as the Faridpur district Islami Chattra Sangha president from 1968 to 1970. After being enrolled at Dhaka University in 1970, he was made Dhaka district Chhatra Sangha president. In the same year, he was assigned the responsibility of
East Pakistan Chhatra Sangha and finally elected provincial president of the organisation in October 1971, and also became the chief of Al-Badr Bahini during the liberation war.
-With The Independent input
