Despite sticking to their guns about
appearance during hartal hours, the International Crimes Tribunal-1 on
Tuesday passed a paradoxical order allowing the defence to further
examine its last witness for war crimes accused Jamaat-e-Islami ameer
Motiur Rahman Nizami.
As the three-member tribunal resumed today, Asad Uddin, a defence lawyers’ panel member, moved a facsimile petition for the third consecutive day seeking adjournment of the trial proceedings once and for all during hartal hours as conducting counsel Mizanul Islam declined to appear before the tribunal despite ensuring police escort to allay his fear about safety of life.
On Monday, allowing the defence adjournment plea for a day, the tribunal had asked defence counsel Mizanul Islam and DW-4 Barrister Nazibur Rahman to appear before it today (Tuesday) during hartal hours, with a caution that if they fail to comply with its orders, the remaining examination of the DW will be closed and prosecution summing up arguments will begin.
Interrupting the counsel yesterday, the three-member tribunal, headed by Justice ATM Fazle Kabir asked him the consequences of such adjournment move that leads the members of the tribunal to sit idle. “Didn’t it cross anybody’s mind?” lamented the tribunal.
In response, advocate Asad told the tribunal: “I don’t want to add any further argument. I’m in a soup since no additional instruction from my senior is available at the moment.”
Meanwhile, DW-4 Barrister Nazibnur Rahman, son of the detained accused Nizami, did not turn up on hartal ground. Even he did not bother to submit his hajira to the tribunal.
As a result, the trial proceeding was disrupted since the enforcement of nonstop 60-hour countrywide hartal called by the BNP led 18-party alliance that began at 6 am on October 27 to press home their demand for nonparty caretaker government during the upcoming parliamentary polls.
Opposing the defence adjournment plea, designated prosecutor Mohammad Ali, however, put the ball in the tribunal’s court to decide the matter.
Considering all the aspects, the tribunal rejected the defence adjournment plea.
The tribunal, however, provided a scope for defence counsel Mizanul Islam to further examine his defence witness for accused Nizami on Wednesday until the first half.
The second half has been allocated to the prosecution to sum up its case with law-point arguments.
A former minister during the past BNP-Jamaat rule, Nizami is being tried on charges of involvement in murders and torture of unarmed people along with hatching conspiracy, planning, incitement and complicity to commit genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War in collaboration with the Pakistan occupation army.
Also the president of Islami Chhatra Sangha (ICS), the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami in 1971, Nizami faces 16 counts of charges based on 16 separate incidents of crimes against humanity, in which at least 600 unarmed people were killed and 31 women raped during the Liberation War.
On May 28, 2012, the tribunal indicted the Jamaat ameer for committing the 1971 crimes against humanity.
On June 29, 2010, Nizami was arrested in front of the National Press Club after a magistrate court in Dhaka issued warrant of arrest in connection with a criminal case over hurting religious sentiment of Muslims. Later, he was shown arrested in connection with the war crimes case.
Court Correspondent
Despite sticking to their guns about appearance during hartal hours, the International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Tuesday passed a paradoxical order allowing the defence to further examine its last witness for war crimes accused Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami.
The second half has been allocated to the prosecution to sum up its case with law-point arguments.
A former minister during the past BNP-Jamaat rule, Nizami is being tried on charges of involvement in murders and torture of unarmed people along with hatching conspiracy, planning, incitement and complicity to commit genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War in collaboration with the Pakistan occupation army.
In response, advocate Asad told the tribunal: “I don’t want to add any further argument. I’m in a soup since no additional instruction from my senior is available at the moment.”
Meanwhile, DW-4 Barrister Nazibnur Rahman, son of the detained accused Nizami, did not turn up on hartal ground. Even he did not bother to submit his hajira to the tribunal.
As the three-member tribunal resumed today, Asad Uddin, a defence lawyers’ panel member, moved a facsimile petition for the third consecutive day seeking adjournment of the trial proceedings once and for all during hartal hours as conducting counsel Mizanul Islam declined to appear before the tribunal despite ensuring police escort to allay his fear about safety of life.
On Monday, allowing the defence adjournment plea for a day, the tribunal had asked defence counsel Mizanul Islam and DW-4 Barrister Nazibur Rahman to appear before it today (Tuesday) during hartal hours, with a caution that if they fail to comply with its orders, the remaining examination of the DW will be closed and prosecution summing up arguments will begin.
As the three-member tribunal resumed today, Asad Uddin, a defence lawyers’ panel member, moved a facsimile petition for the third consecutive day seeking adjournment of the trial proceedings once and for all during hartal hours as conducting counsel Mizanul Islam declined to appear before the tribunal despite ensuring police escort to allay his fear about safety of life.
On Monday, allowing the defence adjournment plea for a day, the tribunal had asked defence counsel Mizanul Islam and DW-4 Barrister Nazibur Rahman to appear before it today (Tuesday) during hartal hours, with a caution that if they fail to comply with its orders, the remaining examination of the DW will be closed and prosecution summing up arguments will begin.
Interrupting the counsel yesterday, the three-member tribunal, headed by Justice ATM Fazle Kabir asked him the consequences of such adjournment move that leads the members of the tribunal to sit idle. “Didn’t it cross anybody’s mind?” lamented the tribunal.
In response, advocate Asad told the tribunal: “I don’t want to add any further argument. I’m in a soup since no additional instruction from my senior is available at the moment.”
Meanwhile, DW-4 Barrister Nazibnur Rahman, son of the detained accused Nizami, did not turn up on hartal ground. Even he did not bother to submit his hajira to the tribunal.
As a result, the trial proceeding was disrupted since the enforcement of nonstop 60-hour countrywide hartal called by the BNP led 18-party alliance that began at 6 am on October 27 to press home their demand for nonparty caretaker government during the upcoming parliamentary polls.
Opposing the defence adjournment plea, designated prosecutor Mohammad Ali, however, put the ball in the tribunal’s court to decide the matter.
Considering all the aspects, the tribunal rejected the defence adjournment plea.
The tribunal, however, provided a scope for defence counsel Mizanul Islam to further examine his defence witness for accused Nizami on Wednesday until the first half.
The second half has been allocated to the prosecution to sum up its case with law-point arguments.
A former minister during the past BNP-Jamaat rule, Nizami is being tried on charges of involvement in murders and torture of unarmed people along with hatching conspiracy, planning, incitement and complicity to commit genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War in collaboration with the Pakistan occupation army.
Also the president of Islami Chhatra Sangha (ICS), the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami in 1971, Nizami faces 16 counts of charges based on 16 separate incidents of crimes against humanity, in which at least 600 unarmed people were killed and 31 women raped during the Liberation War.
On May 28, 2012, the tribunal indicted the Jamaat ameer for committing the 1971 crimes against humanity.
On June 29, 2010, Nizami was arrested in front of the National Press Club after a magistrate court in Dhaka issued warrant of arrest in connection with a criminal case over hurting religious sentiment of Muslims. Later, he was shown arrested in connection with the war crimes case.
Court Correspondent
Despite sticking to their guns about appearance during hartal hours, the International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Tuesday passed a paradoxical order allowing the defence to further examine its last witness for war crimes accused Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami.
The second half has been allocated to the prosecution to sum up its case with law-point arguments.
A former minister during the past BNP-Jamaat rule, Nizami is being tried on charges of involvement in murders and torture of unarmed people along with hatching conspiracy, planning, incitement and complicity to commit genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War in collaboration with the Pakistan occupation army.
In response, advocate Asad told the tribunal: “I don’t want to add any further argument. I’m in a soup since no additional instruction from my senior is available at the moment.”
Meanwhile, DW-4 Barrister Nazibnur Rahman, son of the detained accused Nizami, did not turn up on hartal ground. Even he did not bother to submit his hajira to the tribunal.
As the three-member tribunal resumed today, Asad Uddin, a defence lawyers’ panel member, moved a facsimile petition for the third consecutive day seeking adjournment of the trial proceedings once and for all during hartal hours as conducting counsel Mizanul Islam declined to appear before the tribunal despite ensuring police escort to allay his fear about safety of life.
On Monday, allowing the defence adjournment plea for a day, the tribunal had asked defence counsel Mizanul Islam and DW-4 Barrister Nazibur Rahman to appear before it today (Tuesday) during hartal hours, with a caution that if they fail to comply with its orders, the remaining examination of the DW will be closed and prosecution summing up arguments will begin.
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