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Razzaq, told The Daily Star.

He said the janaza prayers will be held at the SC premises around 11:00am today.

The senior advocate, who was a former assistant secretary general Jamaat-e-Islami, was the chief defence counsel at the International Crimes Tribunal until the end of 2013, when he left Dhaka for London.

He resigned from his position as Jamaat’s assistant secretary general from London on February 15, 2019. He returned home on December 26 last year after 11 years.

Razzaq was an expert on constitutional, civil, criminal, commercial and international law. He had defended former Jamaat leaders Ghulam Azam, Motiur Rahman Nizami, Delwar Hossain Sayedee, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, and Abdul Quader Mollah before the ICT in Bangladesh during the trial proceedings of the cases filed in connection with the crimes against humanity and war crimes in 1971.

Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed has expressed profound grief at his death.

In a condolence message, the chief justice extended heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved family members and stated that the demise of Barrister Razzaq is an irreparable loss to the legal community of Bangladesh. The nation has lost a distinguished jurist, he remarked.

Razzaq was born in 1949 in Shekhlal village of Beanibazar upazila in Sylhet. After obtaining his Barrister-at-Law degree from Lincoln’s Inn, London, he returned to Bangladesh in 1986 and joined the legal profession.