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Published : 23 Dec 2015, 12:10 PM
The court has fixed Jan 31 for witness depositions in the case.
The eight others who will be prosecuted are Md Billal Hossain Biswas, Md Ibrahim Hossain, Sheikh Md Mojibur Rahman, MA Aziz Sardar, Abdul Aziz Sardar, Kazi Ohidul Islam, Md Lutfur Morhal and Md Abdul Khalek.
JP leader Shakhawat Hossain and Billal Biswas are in jail while the others are absconding.
The prosecution’s investigation wing started probing the 12 persons in February 2012. The investigation report was filed with the tribunal in June this year.
On Sep 8, the tribunal took cognisance of the five charges brought against the nine men.
Shakhawat Hossain, who is the religious affairs secretary of JP, had been a leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami.
He was elected MP from Jessore-6 on a Jamaat ticket in 1991, but left the party before expiry of the term and joined the BNP.
Hossain, who is better known as Maulana Shakhawat, has often switched political parties.
He was even in the LDP and the PDP. But during the 2014 national elections, he got Jatiya Party’s nomination from Jessore-6. He did not win the polls.
The charges
*Abduction, confinement, torture and rape of a woman at Keshabpur Upazila’s Boga Village.
*Abduction, torture and murder of Chandtulya Gazi and his son Atiyar of Keshabpur Upazila’s Chingra Village.
*Abduction and torture of Md Nuruddin Morhal of Keshabpur Upazila’s Chingra Village.
*Abduction, torture and murder of Abdul Malek Sardar of Keshabpur Upazila’s Hijaldanga Village.
*Abduction, torture and murder of Miron Sheikh of Keshabpur Upazila’s Mahadebpur Village; arson and looting several houses of the village.
