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War criminal Mir Quasem Ali’s son picked up by 'law-enforcers', family says
War crimes convict Mir Quasem Ali’s son has been picked up by men identifying themselves as law-enforcers, claims his family.
Published : 10 August 2016, 04:56 AM
Updated : 10 August 2016, 04:58 AM
Mir Ahmed Bin Quasem, a lawyer in profession, was whisked away late on Tuesday by men in plainclothes from his home at Dhaka’s Miprur.
Quoting wife Tahmina Akhter, the house’s caretaker Mafidul Islam told bdnews24.com, “Five men took him away in an unmarked white microbus.”
Police, however, said they have no information over detaining the Jamaat-e-Islami leader’s son.
“We do not know anything about it,” said Dhaka metro police spokesperson Deputy Commissioner Masudur Rahman told bdnews24.com.
Mir Quasem Ali, whose death sentence has been upheld by top court, now awaits the hearing of his petition to review his sentence.
The Supreme Court was scheduled to hear the matter on Jul 25, but deferred it to Aug 24 after the defence pleaded for more time.
Mir Quasem, founding president of the Islami Chhatra Shibir, has been a member of the Jamaat's Central Executive Council and the organisation’s fifth most important leader.
The International Crimes Tribunal found him guilty and sentenced him to death in 2014 for the killing of young freedom-fighter Jashim Uddin Ahmed and eight others.
He challenged the verdict but the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence in March this year.
On June 19, he filed a petition for a review of the top court's verdict.
He had been in the Kashimpur prison, in Gazipur, since his arrest in 2012 .
If the review verdict upholds the death sentence, Quasem will have the scope to seek presidential clemency.
But if the Jamaat leader is denied pardon, the government will be free to order his hanging.
Mir Quasem was the Al-Badr’s third most important functionary after Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami and Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid.
Both Nizami and Mujahid have been executed for their 1971 war crimes.
Mir Quasem, a terror in Chittagong during 1971, later proved to be a shrewd businessman and politician.
The 63-year-old media tycoon pumped billions into Jamaat coffers since the mid-1980s to make it financially strong in Bangladesh.
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