‘Shamsuddin Razakar’ lands in jail

A Kishoreganj court has sent ‘notorious Razakar’ Shamsuddin Ahmmed to jail after he was arrested Thursday on 1971 war crimes charges.

Court Police’s Inspector Sunil Chandra Roy on Friday noon pleaded for his detention in jail after presenting Ahmmed in the court of the Senior Judicial Magistrate amid tight security.

Apart from sending him to jail, the judge ordered to send the case documents to the International Crimes Tribunal.

There was no defence counsel present during the hearing.

Police arrested Ahmmed from Mymensingh's Nandail Chouraasta on Thursday night, a day after a report on crimes against humanity against him and his brother Nasir Uddin Ahmmed alias Captain ATM Nasir was submitted at the tribunal.

Five war crimes charges, including murder, genocide and torture, have been pressed against him and Nasir. The latter is still absconding.

Senior member of the tribunal's investigation arm Sanaul Haq said they started investigating the brothers on June 6 last year and completed the process on Nov 24.

Forty persons have been named witnesses.

According to the investigators, Ahmmed and his brother joined the collaborators at the beginning of the Liberation War.

They were allegedly involved with various crimes against humanity in areas under Karimganj Thana during the war.

Investigators claim Nasir Uddin Ahmmed fled to Chittagong after Bangladesh became independent where he completed his studies with false credentials.

He later joined the army with fake identity and address and was finally commissioned on July 5, 1994.

He was retired on Jan 13, 2002 while working as a captain at the East Bengal Regiment and returned to his locality.

Shamsuddin Ahmmed, on the other hand, was in legal profession, the investigators said.

Golap Miah, son of Miah Hossain of Ayla village at Karimganj who was murdered during the war, filed the case on May 2, 2010 over his father’s killing.