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Leak raises

concern over war tribunal's security

2 arrestees remanded

Staff Correspondent
The leak of the draft verdict against BNP lawmaker Salauddin Quader Chowdhury has exposed the dismal state of security at the war crimes tribunal.
A cleaner's access to judges' chamber, some employees' overnight stay inside the court building and use of electronic devices at the court, which
FROM PAGE 16 was restricted by the authorities - all raise questions over the security of the International Crimes Tribunal.
"We are suspecting that there might be some breach of security at the tribunal,” said an official of the Detective Branch of police last night on condition of anonymity.
The DB was investigating the matter, he added.
Last year, after the leak of Skype conversations between former ICT-1 chairman Justice Nizamul Huq Nasim and Belgium-based legal expert Ahmed Ziauddin, war crimes trial campaigners had demanded the authorities step up security at the tribunal. But little seems to have been done to that end.
Meanwhile, a Dhaka court yesterday placed two tribunal staff on remand for eight days each in a case over the draft verdict leak.
Nayon Ali, a cleaner at the tribunal, and Faruk Hossain, an office assistant at the tribunal registrar's office, were arrested on Friday.
Police were yet to arrest another accused, Mehedi Hasan, an assistant to Salauddin's lawyer Fakhrul Islam.
Detectives filed the case against the three and several other unnamed people with Shahbagh Police Station on Friday following an investigation prompted by filing of a general diary by the tribunal registrar.
At a press briefing on Friday, Joint Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Monirul Islam said Nayon had confessed his involvement in the leak.
Faruk had asked Nayon to get "some documents" relating to Salauddin's trial from the tribunal's computers and give them to Mehedi Hasan, said the DMP official, adding that Nayon had handed over Hasan a soft copy of the 165-page document in phases using a pen drive.
Initially, Nayon had refused to comply with their demand. But later on he did it as Mehedi and Faruq threatened to put him in trouble.
Although Nayon was employed as a cleaner, he used to work occasionally as a peon at the office of Justice ATM Fazle Kabir, chairman of ICT-1, tribunal sources said.
"Security men didn't suspect him as he occasionally entered the office even after monitoring his movement in closed circuit cameras,” said Nasiruddin Mahmud, registrar and spokesperson of the tribunal.
On Thursday, seven to eight cleaners, including Nayan, who used to stay in the tribunal building at night, were shifted to somewhere else, he added.
Except for a few designated persons, no one is allowed to carry electronic devices, including pen drives, at the court, mentioned Nasiruddin.
DB Inspector Mohammad Shahjahan, also the investigation officer of the case, produced the arrestees before the Metropolitan Magistrate's Court seeking 10-day remand for each.
The detectives will quiz the duo to find out whether any other person was involved in the leak.
On Tuesday, the ICT-1 awarded death sentence to the BNP leader for committing crimes against humanity in Chittagong during the Liberation War in 1971.