The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) awarded death sentence to a man and imprisonment unto death to three others for committing crimes against humanity during the country’s liberation war in 1971.

A three-member bench of ICT led by its chairman Justice Md Shahinur Islam delivered the verdict in the case on Thursday (June 30). 

The court also acquitted another person named Sabbir Ahmed of the charges who remains a fugitive. The death row convict is Md Shafi Uddin who also remains a fugitive. Three others are Md Tajul Islam, Md Jahed Mia and Chalek Miah.

Senior prosecutor Sultan Mahmud Simon argued for the state, while Gazi MH Tamim and Abdus Sattar Palowan defended the accused at the court.

The investigation agency of the ICT on March 21, 2018, concluded their investigation in the case and submitted their report at prosecution office. The prosecution on August 6, 2018, submitted the formal charge.

The tribunal on February 7, 2019, framed two charges of looting, arson, abduction, confinement, torture and murder against the accused.

BDST:1533 HRS, JUN 30, 2022
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