DHAKA: International Crimes Tribunal-2 will pass the verdict in Intellectuals killing case against Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan any day as trail proceedings ends Monday.

ICT-2 led by Justice Obaidul Hasan on Monday concluded the proceedings of the case fixing no date and time for the verdict.

Mueen and Ashraf, former members of Islami Chhatra Sangha, the then student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, are facing 11 charges for their alleged involvement in the killings of nine Dhaka University teachers, six journalists and three physicians in the last week of the nine-month-long war.

The prosecution produced 25 witnesses, including two investigation officers, to prove the charges, but the defence could not produce a witness for what they said they didn’t get cooperation from relatives of their “absconding” clients.

Earlier on April 25, Prosecutor Saidur Rahman submitted formal charge against them to International Crimes Tribunal.

As per International Crimes Tribunal Act ’73 section 3/2, five charges including abduction, confinement, torture, murder were brought against them.

According to formal charges, Mueen-Uddin was the ‘Operation in charge of Al-Badr" and Ashrafuzzaman Khan was the "chief executor’ of the force and they "directly took part" in the killing of intellectuals in Dhaka.

The investigators submitted a total of 584-page investigation report to the tribunal on allegation of wartime crimes.

Tribunal’s investigation officer Md Shahjahan Kabir completed the investigation on allegation against

Ashrafuzzaman, son of late Ajhar Ali, of Gopalganj while Md Ataur Rahman investigated into the allegations against Mueen-Uddin, son of late Delwar Hossain Chowdhury of Feni.
 
Mueen-Uddin has been living in London for decades while Ashrafuzzaman is now in New York, USA, the agency officials had said.

BDST: 1535 HRS, SEP 30, 2013
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