ICT-1 seeks probe report on Kashem

Mir Kashem Ali

International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Thursday ordered the prosecution to submit the investigation report against war crimes suspect Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Kashem Ali on November 27.

If the prosecution fails, it will have to submit a process report on the investigation on that day, the tribunal said.

The two-member panel led by its Chairman Justice Nizamul Huq also asked the authorities concerned to produce Kashem before it on November 27.

The tribunal fixed the date after prosecutor Hrishikesh Saha submitted a progress report on the investigation against Kashem, saying that they would need more time to complete the probe.

Earlier in the morning, Kashem was brought to the ICT-1 from Dhaka Central Jail and produced him before the court.

Kashem was arrested at a newspaper office in Dhaka on June 17 two hours within the tribunal had issued arrest warrant against him for his alleged involvement with crimes against humanity.

The tribunal later sent him to jail with a custodial warrant.

Kashem, who lived in Harirampur of Manikganj in Chittagong in 1971, was known as Mintu then.

In his youth, he was an activist of the Islami Chhatra Sangha, the then student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami.