Nizami fit

The Dhaka Central Jail authorities yesterday submitted a health report of Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami to the registrar's office of International Crimes Tribunal, mentioning him as being “fit”, the tribunal's deputy registrar has said.
“He is now in good health,” Arunav Chakraborty, deputy registrar of the tribunal, told The Daily Star last night, citing the report.
Nizami's latest health report came nine days after the International Crimes Tribunal-1 deferred the long-awaited verdict “due to his illness”.
The tribunal was scheduled to deliver the verdict on June 24, but earlier that day the prison authorities sent a report to the tribunal chairman Justice M Enayetur Rahim mentioning Nizami's illness.
The tribunal found it "irrational to deliver judgement in the absence of the accused."
Two days later, the jail authorities sent another report mentioning that “his health had improved slightly but yet to be stable”, prolonging the delivery of the verdict.
Farman Ali, senior jail super of Dhaka Central Jail, told The Daily Star last night that Nizami was sent to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) for check-up yesterday.
Citing the references to the physicians of BSMMU and the jail, Farman Ali said, "His [Nizami's] physical condition is stable and well now.”

Nizami was also shifted to his designated cell from the jail hospital, he added.
Nizami, a former minister during the BNP-led four-party government, faces 16 charges, including genocide committed during the Liberation War in 1971. He, however, has pleaded not guilty before the court.
Unlike any other war crimes cases, Nizami's trial has taken around four years, including pre-trial investigation, thanks to the defence's “dilatory tactics”, the prosecution's “lack of preparation” and long vacancy in the chairman's post of the tribunal-1.