Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Muzammel Hoque on Wednesday told reporters that they were thinking about finalising the list of those people by the end of next month.
He said they would also try to institute the new tribunal to settle possible cases against the fraud.
The minister shared his plans at a time when the media is abuzz with the news of 16 top government officials obtaining fake freedom-fighter certificates.
Names of these 16 officials have been published by a daily, but the minister allowed no scope to ask about them.
They are - Agriculture Secretary SM Nazmul Islam, Expatriates and Overseas Employment Secretary Khondaker Showkat Hossain, Planning Division Secretary Bhuiyan Shafiqul Islam, Primary and Mass Education Secretary Quazi Akhter Hossain and OSD Secretary Nurul Haque.
Apart from them, former public administration secretary ASM Ali Kabir, former secretary Phani Bhusan Chowdhury, former principal secretary to the Prime Minister's Office Shaikh Md Wahid-Uz-Zaman, former liberation war affairs secretary Feroz Kibria and former additional secretary Khalilur Rahman were also named in the report.
The list also includes BTRC Chairman Sunil Kanti Bose, RAJUK Chairman GM Jainal Abedin Bhuiyan, PSC member Main Uddin Khandaker, former Tariff Commission chairman AKM Azizul Huq, Bangladesh Ambassador to Vietnam Shahab Ullah and non-cadre former official Muhammad Abul Hossain.
The liberation war affairs minister on Wednesday said they were trying to identify those involved in the fraud and working on revoking the fake certificates.
Muzammel Hoque added that so far over 3,000 such certificates had been cancelled.
Asked whether the ministry would sue the fraud secretaries, he said they were waiting to see whether any of the accused would file a writ petition against the cancellation of the certificate.
He said they would take a different measure which would not consume time. "We’re thinking about a new law for these cases, a tribunal is needed for quick results.”
A tribunal in line with the current law could only provide quick results in cases like recovering government land or cancelling fake certificates, he added.
The minister said that he was in favour of setting up a tribunal to avoid procrastination of trials.
Hoque, however, could not give a specific deadline on setting up the tribunal when asked.
If media reports were anything to go by, he saud, there could be no fewer than 100,000 people who had obtained fake freedom-fighter certificates.
“If the number is that high, we'll have to settle this fast. We'll begin the trial process once the list is finalised."