Dhaka, Oct 2 (bdnews24.com) — The agency investigating into the crimes against humanity committed in 1971 has finalised its report on the charges against BNP leader Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury.
The 119-page report with around 8,000-page data would be submitted to the chief prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) Gholam Arif Tipu on Monday, co-ordinator of the agency Mohammad Abdul Hannan Khan told reporters on Sunday.
Investigator Nurul Islam said Salahuddin's involvement in 32 specific incidents had been proved preliminarily.
"The crimes he had committed include murdering civilians, abduction, rape, torture, etc," he said.
"It's proved in primary investigation that he had taken part directly in crimes against humanity [to be charged] under the ICT Rule 3 (2) and genocide under 3 (2) B of the ICT Rule. He had also taken part indirectly in organising and plotting the crimes [to be charged] under the ICT Rule 3 (2) C."
"A list of the murdered people has also been finalised," Nurul added.
Senior investigator M Sanaul Haque said fresh data of the charges against Salahuddin would bee attached to the report in line with the permission by the tribunal. "But no new charge can be brought," he added.
Muslim League leader Fazlul Quader Chowdhury's son Salahuddin has been accused of killing Nuton Chandra Singha, the owner of Kundeshwary Ousadhaloy (Pharmacy) at Raujan in Chittagong, during the Liberation War in 1971.
He has also been accused of backing genocides during the war.
The investigation agency had appealed to the tribunal on Dec 15 last year to detain Salahuddin, a BNP standing committee member. Within a day of filing the appeal, he had been arrested on the charge of killing one during a general strike by torching a car.
He had been shown arrested for crimes against humanity, on Dec 19 last year.
The agency has already submitted an around 4,000-page report on Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee. The tribunal has also finished hearing arguments over forming charges against Sayedee.
The court will decide on Monday whether to indict the Jamaat leader for crimes against humanity including genocide, rape, arson and loot.
Apart from Salahuddin and Sayedee, Jamaat chief Matiur Rahman Nizami, secretary-general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, assistant secretaries-general Mohammad Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Molla, and former member of BNP founder Ziaur Rahman's cabinet Abdul Alim were arrested for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.
However, Alim was later freed on a conditional bail.
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