[Bangla Daily Star] The International Crimes Tribunal on Wednesday directed the authorities concerned to keep four top Jamaat-e-Islami leaders, including its Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami,...During the liberation war of 1971, Nizami formed the Al-Badr Force and acted as its supreme commander. Nizami advocated deadly violence against minority Hindus. On Nizamis orders, The Al-Badr militia took active part in rape, extortion, looting and killing of Bangladeshis who supported the liberation, including a pre-planned massacre on December 14, 1971, when the Al-Badr militia along with Pakistan Army rounded up hundreds of doctors, professors, writers, and other Bengali intellectuals, and executed them...
jugged until July 12 in connection with crimes against humanity in 1971.
The three other leaders are: Secretary General Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojahid and assistant secretaries general Muhammad Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Molla.
The three-member tribunal headed by Justice Nizamul Haque ordered the prosecutors to submit the final report on investigation into the allegations against them by July 12.
The court also said the prosecutors will have to submit the progress report of investigation if they failed to place the final report to it on time.
The tribunal passed the orders upon a petition filed by the prosecution for keeping the four Jamaat leaders jugged until completion of investigation into the war crimes charges against them. The prosecution filed the petition in April.
The four leaders were produced before the tribunal in the morning.
The tribunal also rejected two separate petitions filed by Nizami and Mojahid on May 31 seeking bail on medical grounds.
The court also directed the jail authorities to provide proper treatment to them at Birdem Hospital at their own cost if necessary.
It also directed the authorities to arrange special food for them as they are diabetic patients
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the tribunal permitted the Sherlocks to interrogate Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Molla for one day each at the Dhanmondi 'safe home'.
The court passed the order after holding hearing on two separate petitions filed by the prosecution seeking its directives to interrogate them.
The Jamaat leaders will be interrogated from 10:00am to 5:00pm with a one-hour break from 1:00pm, the tribunal said adding that the Sherlocks would fix separate dates for interrogation later.
The tribunal said a doctor and a counsel for the accused will be present at an adjacent room. The doctor will examine the health condition of the accused persons before and after the interrogation.
The tribunal also directed the Sherlocks not to put any pressure on them during interrogation. The interrogation will be held in Bangla so that the accused persons can understand the questions and can reply properly.