The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday showed a Khulna man arrested in a case filed over committing crimes during the 1971 Liberation War.

The tribunal passed the order following a petition moved by Prosecutor Mukhlesur Rahman Badal.

The tribunal on March 8 issued arrest warrants against Shahar Ali, 64, and Nazrul Islam and when police went to arrest them, they found that Shahar was already arrested on February 19 in a drug case and now in Jessore jail.

Badal appealed to the tribunal to show Shahar arrested in the war crimes case and to keep him in jail for the sake of proper investigation. Nazrul is yet to be arrested.

Shahar and Nazrul are among eight accused of the war crimes case and all the accused are from Batiaghata upazila of Khulna, Prosecutor Sabina Yesmin Khan Munni told The Daily Star.

Six other accused were shown arrested in the war crimes case on March 9 and they are now in jail.

The six are Ashraf Sheikh, 79, Amzad Hossain Hawlader, 74, Mozahar Ali Sheikh, 64, Atiar Sheikh, 69, Motasim Billah, 79, and Kamal Uddin Coldar, 65.

Investigation of the case began on November 15, 2015 and the investigation officer already found involvement of the eight persons, who were involved with Razakar Bahini, the prosecutor said.