Four Moulvibazar suspects indicted
The prosecution yesterday pressed two charges over the alleged involvement of four Moulvibazar men in crimes including killing, looting, arson, rape, abduction, confinement and torture during the 1971 Liberation War.
Moreover, the three-member International Crimes Tribunal-1 led by Justice Anwarul Haque concluded hearing three charges from the prosecution and defence over the involvement of four Noakhali men in similar crimes and fixed June 20 to decide whether to frame those.
In the Moulvibazar case, prosecutor Sheikh Moshfeq Kabir submitted the formal charges and other documents and the tribunal fixed June 15 to decide whether to take those into cognisance.
Akmal Ali Talukder, 76, is now in jail while Abdun Nur Talukder alias Lal Miah, 62, Anis Miah, 76, and Abdul Musabbir Miah, 64, of Rajnagar upazila in Moulvibazar are on the run.
The tribunal's investigation agency on March 23 completed probes and said to have found evidence centring their involvement.
One incident involved looting and arson in 132 houses, killing of 59 people and rape of six women of Panchgaon village in Rajnagar upazila between May 7 and 8.
The other was over looting and arson in four houses and abduction, confinement, torture and killing of two people of Pashimbhag village between November 24 and 25.
The four were involved with the politics of Muslim league, the agency said.
During the Liberation War, Akmal was a member of a local Peace Committee, an anti-liberation organisation, while the others were involved with Razakar Bahini, an auxiliary force of the Pakistani occupation army.
Afterwards, Akmal did not get involved with politics while the three are now involved with Jamaat-e-Islami's politics.
NOAKHALI CASE
Amir Ali, 70, Md Joynal Abedin, 73, and Md Abdul Kuddus, 84, are in jail while Abul Kalam alias AKM Mansur, 67, on the run.
Prosecutors pressed the charges against five persons on October 5, 2015. Mohammad Yusuf died of old age complications on May 19, and his name was excluded, prosecutor Zahid Imam told The Daily Star yesterday.
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