Monitoring team launched for arrest of fugitives
In compliance with a war crimes tribunal's order, a five-member monitoring committee has been formed to make sure the arrest of fugitive war crimes convicts and accused.
Led by a deputy inspector general of police, the team will also get representatives from Detective Branch and Special Branch of police, Rapid Action Battalion andthe investigation agency of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT).
Acting Deputy Registrar of ICT Md Aftabuzzaman said they received a letter about formation of the committee on May 21.
On May 13, the three-member tribunal-1 led by Justice M Enayetur Rahim ordered the government to form the committee in 15 days.
The tribunal gave the directive to the home secretary and the inspector general of police as it found law enforcers' repeated failures to arrest the fugitives, especially those in four cases it had dealt with.
The court cited four cases against Abdul Jabbar, Zahid Hossain Khokon, Syed Hasan Ali and Nasir Uddin Ahmed and four others that showed little success in arresting anyone concerned.
Law enforcers have so far arrested only one among the eight accused.
Jabbar and Khokon have been convicted in absentia, while the case against fugitive Hasan Ali is now waiting for the verdict.
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