Preparing probe report in ICT case against Hasina at “fag end”: Tajul

Chief Prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) Muhammad Tajul Islam. -File Photo

The Chief Prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) Muhammad Tajul Islam today said preparation of the probe report in a crime against humanity case against ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and others is at its “fag end”.

“The probe report is almost ready and is likely to be filed within a week or two,” he said while pleading for another two months time for filing the probe report in the case.

Allowing the prosecution plea, Justice Md Golam Mortuza Mozumder, Chairman of the three-judge panel of the tribunal, set June 24 for submitting probe report of the case.

Former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun, who is also an accused in the case, was present at the courtroom during the hearing.

Prosecutors Gazi MH Tamim, Shaikh Mahadi, and Abdullah Al Noman were present, among others, during the hearing today.

Earlier, the prosecution had said they are taking time to prepare the probe report as they are using the information available in the UN fact-finding report.

“The reports are nearly complete. But as you know the United Nations (UN) Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) recently published its fact-finding report over July-August mass uprising. Process is on to add information from that with this probe reports. For that we need a little more time to this end,”  he said here on February 18.

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