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SC Verdict In Sayedee Case

Attorney gen finds investigation weak

Ashutosh Sarkar
A weak investigation in the war crimes case against Delawar Hossain Sayedee was to blame for the Supreme Court commuting his capital punishment to imprisonment until death, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam said yesterday.
"The investigation agency should have found out the charge sheet in Ibrahim Kutti murder case filed by his wife," he told The Daily Star yesterday.
"Had enough documents been placed before the Supreme Court about Sayedee's direct involvement in killing Ibrahim, his death sentence might have been upheld."
Mahbubey Alam said he himself had gone to Barisal and Pirojpur looking for the original case documents, which were supposed to mention Sayedee’s name in connection with the Ibrahim murder. But he had not found any of those.
On Wednesday, after the apex court sentenced Sayedee to jail until death overruling the verdict of the International Crimes Tribunal-1, the attorney general said this was not the judgment he had expected.
The Tribunal-1 on February 28 last year passed the death sentence on the Jamaat leader for wartime killing, abduction, torture, rape and forced religious conversion.
Mahbubey Alam said the SC judges didn't mention the reasons on which the apex court’s verdict was based.
Talking to this correspondent yesterday, the top law officer of the state noted that depositions of prosecution witnesses were weak too.
Sayedee's counsels have placed arguments before the SC by pointing out the weaknesses of statements of prosecution witnesses, he said.
He observed that the statements given by politicians and intellectuals as prosecution witnesses before the International Crimes Tribunals in different war crimes cases were really "ridiculous".
According to Sayedee's counsels, Ibrahim's wife Momtaj Begum filed a case with Pirojpur Police Station in January 1972 in connection with the killing, and Sayedee's name was not mentioned in the case and the charge sheet.
A copy of the first information report (FIR) was submitted to the Tribunal-1, but the court passed the death sentence for the killing of Ibrahim without taking into cognisance the evidence, they claimed.
Contacted, Sanaul Huq, a senior member of the investigation agency dealing war crimes cases, refuted the allegation made by the attorney general saying no court had made a mention of weakness of investigation in any verdict.
"He [attorney general] himself visited Pirojpur for the documents, but he did get it. So, how can he blame the investigation agency?’
The district magistrate and superintendent of police of Pirojpur have informed the investigation agency that such documents do not exist, he claimed.
About the defence's claim of submitting a copy of the FIR, Sanaul said it was a forged document.