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Keep Subhan in jail

War crimes tribunal asks prison authorities; directs lawmen to produce him on Sept 30

Staff Correspondent
International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday asked the prison authorities concerned to keep recently arrested Jamaat leader Maulana Abdus Subhan detained and produce him before the tribunal on September 30.
The tribunal issued the order following a petition in which the prosecution said there was an investigation going on against war crimes suspect Subhan and he needed to be kept in detention for a fair probe.
Members of an army intelligence agency on September 20 arrested Jamaat -e-Islami Nayeb-e-Ameer Maulana Abdus Subhan at Bangabandhu Bridge toll plaza in Tangail in connection with a case of vandalism.
Prosecutor Sultan Mahmud Simon in his petition said that investigation had been going on against the Jamaat leader since April 15,2012.
Significant information had been obtained about his involvement in assisting the Pakistani army to kill hundreds
of people in Pabna during the Liberation War, he said.
Simon said Subhan was the secretary of the Shanti Committee (auxiliary force of the Pakistani army in 1971) of Pabna during the war. In July 1971, Subhan was promoted to vice-president of the committee.
Subhan also led other collaborator forces, the Razakars, Al-Badr and Al-Shams, in killing people, he claimed. FROM PAGE 20
Simon said Subhan had been involved in the killing of eight Hindus of Kustiapara and Shakharipara of Pabna on April 17,1971.
‘About 1,000 people of Demra of Faridpur of Pabna were killed in early May 1971, by the Pakistani army. In that month, about 400 people of Nazirganj and Satbaria union of Sujanagar were also killed. Subhan was allegedly involved in the killing missions,” the prosecutor said.
Simon said after the Liberation War, a case was lodged against him but he escaped to Pakistan along with war crimes accused Ghulam Azam.
The prosecutor feared he may flee again.
Tribunal-2 Chairman Justice Md Nizamul Huq then said, “Why do you want a warrant now?"
“We are concerned about his allegations. He [Subhan] is Jamaat's nayeb-e-ameer and has been trying to hinder the war crimes trial in various ways.
“Subhan was leading propagation inside and outside the country and he may flee the country once charges are made under the International Crimes Tribunal Act,” Simon explained.
The tribunal chairman said the accused was arrested in a case filed with the Pabna Police Station. He then issued the order to have him produced before the tribunal.
Meanwhile, a Pabna court denied Subhan bail in the vandalism case yesterday.
Pabna Superintendent of Police Jahangir Hossain said he had been informed of the tribunal's order to produce him before it and they would take steps accordingly.
Earlier, Tribunal-1 in the war crimes case against Ghulam Azam recorded the depositions of two witnesses from whom the investigation team collected evidence.
The defence would cross-examine them today.
The Tribunal-2 yesterday directed the authorities concerned to publish an ad in two national dailies asking war crimes accused Abul Kalam Azad to appear before it within 10 days of the ad publication.
The tribunal headed by its Chairman Justice ATM Fazle Kabir delivered the order as the accused could not be arrested. According to a police report the accused was on the run.
On September 9, the tribunal had taken into cognisance formal charges
filed against the expelled Jamaat member for his alleged involvement in crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.
The same day, it had issued an arrest warrant, for the second time, against Azad and directed the Dhaka Metropolitan Police to submit the execution report on the order.
Citing the DMP's execution report submitted yesterday, Prosecutor Sahidur Rahman told reporters that Azad, also known as Bachchu Razakar, remained absconding and that the police were lookingforhim.
Asperits rules andproce-dures, the tribunal directed the registrar office to publish ads in two national dailies, one Bangla and another in English, asking Azad to appear before the court, said Sahidur Rahman.
“If he [Azad] fails to appear before the court within 10 days, trial proceedings against him would be held in his absence as per law,” said the prosecutor.
Mesbahuddin Ahmed, deputy registrar of the tribunal, told The Daily Star that they would try to publish the advertisements within the shortest possible time.
On July 26, the investigation agency completed its enquiry and the prosecution submitted the formal charges accusing Azad of 10 types of crimes against humanity.
In the formal charges, the prosecution said the former leader of Islami Chhatra Sangha, student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami in 1971, was involved in the killing of at least 14 people and in two acts of genocide in Faridpur.
Azad went into hiding around seven hours before Tribunal-2 issued an arrest warrant against him on April3.
Meanwhile, Tribunal-2 adjourned the cross-examination of Syed Abdul Kaium, the 10th prosecution witness in the war crimes case against Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah, as the defence counsels “could not” appear before the court "due to countrywide hartal”.
When yesterday's court proceedings began around 10:50am, GaziMHTamim.a junior member of the defence team, told the tribunal that senior members of the team could not come due to the hartal and sought adjournment until today.
On September 17, Kaium testified that Quader Mollah and his accomplices had killed journalist Khondaker Abu Taleb at Mirpur's Jalladkhana during the