Senior Judicial Magistrate Taibul Hassan passed the order after Officer-in-Charge of Keraniganj police station Mohammad Asaduzzaman, also the investigation officer (IO) of the case, submitted a petition before it seeking an order to transfer the case to the International Crimes Tribunal.

Other accused are two assistant secretaries general of Jamaat Mohammad Abdul Quader Molla and Muhammad Quamruzzaman, Keraniganj upazila unit Amir Haji Nazim Uddin, Islami Chhatra Sangha leader KG Karim Babla, and Abul Kashem, Foyzur Rahman Foyaz and Yasin. The last three were Al-badr, Razakar and Al-shams activists during the war.

Earlier on Wednesday, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Dhaka AKM Enamul Haque sent another case to the International Crimes Tribunal filed with Pallabi police station for killing 345 people during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.

On December 17 of 2008, Mozaffar Ahmad Khan, Dhaka District Muktijoddha Unit commander, filed the case with Keraniganj police station accusing Nizami, Mojahid and seven others for killing his nephew and one of his comrades on November 25, 1971.

In yesterday’s petition, Asaduzzaman said, the case is now treatable under the International Crimes Tribunal as it was filed for killing freedom fighters and other people during the Liberation War in 1971. So, the case should be transferred to the tribunal for its next course of action.

The complainant said on November 25 of 1971, the accused hacked Osman Gani and Golam Mostafa to death when they went to their houses to meet their parents and relatives.

PALLABI CASE
On January 25 of 2008, Mohammad Amir Hossain Mollah, a wounded FF and resident of Pallabi’s Duaripara, filed the case with Pallabi police station accusing Nizami, Mojahid, five of their party men and three non-Bangalees for the massacre of 345 people during the Liberation War.

The other accused Quader Molla, Kamaruzzaman, Jamaat central leader and former Islami Chhatra Sangha president Sardar Abdul Salam and activist Khawza Ashim (now deceased), and Akhter ‘Gunda’, Newaz and Doma (non-Bangalees who later fled to Pakistan).

The complainant stated that the Jamaat men killed them in city’s Mirpur area. The victims included 21 of his relatives, one colleague, 43 Mirpur residents and 280 others from different areas of the country on April 24 and December 18 in 1971. www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=147876