DHAKA: Law Minister Advocate Anisul Haque on Wednesday said the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act, 1973 would be amended to bring Jamaat-e-Islami under trial instead of banning for the party’s crimes against humanity during Liberation War in 1971.

The minister made the assertion at a meeting with Canadian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Heather Cruden at his secretariat office in the city at noon.

Earlier on December 7, he told that the amendment of International Crimes (Tribunals) Act, 1973 would be placed in the cabinet in December or early January of 2015.

The Act will be amended after the President’s speech in the first session of the parliament in New Year, he added.

It will be possible to bring Jamaat and its wings and other collaborating parties and organisations of Pakistan Army in 1971 under trial after the amendment.

However, the probe committee submitted the report against Jamaat-e-Islami to the ICT prosecution. But the prosecution could not form formal charges against the organization.

It will be possible after the amendment, the prosecutors concerned commented.

BDST: 1920 HRS, DEC 10, 2014