Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee opens probe into ICT prosecutor Tureen Afroz

Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee has launched an investigation into the alleged secret meeting between one of its members, Tureen Afroz, and a war crimes suspect.

The platform of activists who demand trials of war crimes suspects formed a committee with three former judges in an emergency meeting on Saturday, it said in a statement.     

Tureen, a prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal, allegedly met last year former Muhammad Wahidul Haque, who had headed the National Security Intelligence and the Department of Immigration and Passports.

Haque was recently arrested on charges of committing crimes against humanity during the War of Independence from Pakistan in 1971.

The three former judges on the committee are Justice Shamsul Huda, Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury and Justice Nizamul Huq.

The ICT has already taken Tureen off all its cases. She denies any wrongdoing.

Law Minister Anisul Huq said the government was also looking into the matter.

War crimes tribunal takes Prosecutor Tureen off all cases for ‘meeting suspect’