Subhan’s indictment decision now Dec 31

Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdus Subhan. Star file photo

A Dhaka tribunal will decide on December 31 whether it will frame charges against Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdus Subhan for his alleged involvement in crimes against humanity and genocide during the Liberation War in 1971.

The tribunal was scheduled to take its decision on the charge framing of Subhan, an alleged leader of the Peace Committee in 1971.

The International Crime Tribunal-1 led by Justice ATM Fazle Kabir deferred the date today saying that the court could not prepare the charge framing order.

The judge however did not elaborate its reason why the deferment came, reports our correspondent.

Justice Anwarul Haque, a member of the three-man tribunal, was absent during the day's proceedings that continued for nearly one-and-a-half-hour from around 10:45am.

On September 15, the prosecution pressed nine charges against the Jamaat Nayeb-e-Ameer and said the role of Subhan was similar to that of war crimes convict and former Jamaat chief Ghulam Azam during the war.

According to the charges, Subhan, as vice-president of the Pabna Peace Committee, was involved in at least nine incidents of crimes against humanity and genocide.

Son of Sheikh Naimuddin and Nurani Begum of Tailakundi village in Sujanagar upazila of Pabna, Subhan was the founder ameer of Jamaat in Pabna and a Majlish-e-Sura member of the party’s central unit in undivided Pakistan, said the prosecution.