DHAKA: The verdict in war crimes related cases against working council member of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, also the chairman of Diganta Media Corporation LTD, Mir Quasem Ali will be delivered on Sunday.

The International Crimes Tribunal-2 is going to deliver the verdict in a case filed against the Jamaat leader for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War — three days after ICT-1 sentenced the party chief Motiur Rahman Nizami to death.

Indicted on September 5, 2013, on 14 war crimes charges, each carrying superior responsibility, Mir Quasem Ali’s trial was completed on May 4, when the judges kept the verdict waiting.

However, ahead of the verdict, the Jamaat leader has already been shifted to the Dhaka Central Jail from Kashimpur Jail on Friday.

On the other hand, the authorities stepped up security around the Old High Court Building, housing the two ICTs, in the capital.

Mir Quasem Ali, who was arrested on June 17, 2012, was the founding president of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami. 

BDST: 0924 HRS, NOV 02, 2014