Verdict comes after 5-yr hectic proceedings

It all originated from two murder cases filed in connection with the killings of unarmed people during the Liberation War in 1971.
On December 17, 2007, freedom fighter Mozaffar Ahmad Khan from Keraniganj filed a case against nine Jamaat-e-Islami leaders including its Assistant Secretary General Abdul Quader Mollah on charge of killing two freedom fighters in 1971.
Freedom fighter Amir Hossain Mollah from Mirpur on January 24 next year filed another murder case against seven Jamaat leaders, including Mollah, and three non-Bangalees on charge of killing 345 people in Mirpur during the war.
Other accused of the cases include Jamaat Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami, Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and Assistant Secretary General Muhammad Kamaruzzaman.
Both the cases were filed with the Court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Dhaka. The court directed the Keraniganj and Pallabi police to register Mozaffar's and Amir's case respectively.
Both the cases' documents were transferred to the office of the investigation agency, designated to probe the war crimes cases, through the registrar's office of the International Crimes Tribunal after its formation on March 25, 2010.
The agency, receiving the cases' documents as complaint-1, started investigation into crimes allegedly committed by the four Jamaat leaders including Mollah in July 2010.
Two and a half years into filing of the case, police arrested Quader Mollah and Kamaruzzaman in connection with Amir's case on July 13, 2010.
On August 2, 2010, they were shown arrested in a case filed for crimes against humanity committed in 1971.
Later, Mozaffar and Amir gave testimony as the first and the ninth prosecution witnesses respectively as the tribunal framed separate charges in two incidents in Mollah's case.
On completion of probe against Mollah, the investigation agency handed over its report to the prosecution on October 31, 2011.
The prosecution on December 18, 2011 submitted formal charges against Mollah before the Tribunal-1, which took the charges into cognisance on December 28.
On April 16 last year, the case was transferred to the International Crimes Tribunal-2 after it was set up on March 22 for expeditious trial. After the charge framing hearing, the Tribunal-2 indicted Mollah with six charges of crimes against humanity.
According to the charges, Mollah "actively took part" in the killings of at least 381 unarmed people in Dhaka's Mirpur and Keraniganj areas in six different incidents.
Mollah, the then president of Dhaka University's Shahidullah Hall unit Islami Chhatra Sangha, organised formation of Al-Badr with the members of the Jamaat's student body in 1971, the order said.
On June 20, 2012, the prosecution placed their opening statement in the case against Mollah and started to produce their witnesses on July 3.
As many as 12 prosecution witnesses including the two investigation officers of the case testified against Mollah. Six people, including the accused himself, testified as the defence witnesses since November 15, 2012.
After Tribunal-1 chairman Justice Nizamul Huq resigned in December amid a controversy, Mollah sought retrial of his case, but the Tribunal-2 rejected his petition on January 7 as "it didn't find any merit of it to consider".
The prosecution and the defence placed their closing arguments between December 17, 2012 and January 17 and the tribunal kept the case waiting for verdict on the last day.