Order on Sayedee's petition deferred
The International Crimes Tribunal yesterday deferred till November 28 for passing order on a petition filed by Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee seeking explanation on why Justice Nizamul Huq is continuing to chair the tribunal.
Earlier on Sunday, the tribunal had fixed November 23 (yesterday) for passing an order on the petition.
Deputy registrar of the tribunal Mesbahuddin Ahmed told The Daily Star that the tribunal fixed November 28 for passing order on the petition, as it could not prepare the order yesterday.
He, however, could not disclose why the tribunal failed to prepare the order.
The tribunal judges did not sit in the ejlash (courtroom) for passing the order. They only informed the tribunal's deputy registrar that order would be passed on November 28.
Sayedee filed the petition on November 16 following a response three days earlier from the remaining judges of the tribunal that the tribunal chief's decision to abstain from trial proceedings is entirely up to him.
On October 27, Sayedee filed a petition urging the tribunal chief to abstain voluntarily from trial proceedings against him.
In the petition, he said that Justice Nizamul may be biased in the trial proceedings, as he was a member of the secretariat of the People's Enquiry Commission that investigated allegations against him [Sayedee] and some others in 1993-1994.
Sayedee, an executive council member of Jamaat, who is now under trial for committing war crimes during the 1971 Liberation War, faces 20 specific charges.
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