Charges Against Quader Mollah
Hearing on March 4
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) further deferred till March 4 the scheduled hearing yesterday on charge framing against Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Mollah for his alleged crimes against humanity.
The order came yesterday following an adjournment prayer filed by Quader's defence counsels.
One of the counsels, Tajul Islam, told the tribunal that they could not take preparations as they were unable to read the 258-page document of the formal charges against Quader since the photocopy of the documents was very unclear.
The three-judge tribunal headed by its Chairman Justice Md Nizamul Huq then directed the prosecution to provide the defence lawyers with legible copies of the documents in a week.
The tribunal on January 29 had deferred the hearing till yesterday following a time petition filed by the lawyers of Quader, who is charged with seven specific crimes against humanity committed during the War of Liberation in 1971.
The prosecution on December 18 last year submitted formal charges against Quader before the ICT, which took the charges into cognisance on December 28.
Quader is among the six Jamaat-e-Islami and two BNP leaders who are facing war crimes charges at the tribunal.
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