The prosecution on Sunday officially submitted to the Registrar of the International Crimes Tribunal the proposed charge accusing former Jatiya Party MP of Pirojpur engineer Abdul Jabbar, now on the run, of perpetrating the crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.
The prosecution pressed five counts of war crimes charges against the fugitive former Jatiya Party MP, believed living in the USA now.
Earlier, on April 29, after working for over 11 months, the investigation officer (IO) of the case ASP M Helal Uddin submitted the investigation report to the prosecution. The investigation started on May 19, 2013.
The IO of the case also submitted a list of 44 prosecution witnesses to prove the charges as proposed against Jabbar.
IO Helal Uddin found Jabbar’s involvement in five types of crimes, including killing, genocide, arson, looting and forcefully converting many Hindus to Muslim in then Mathbaria thana of Pirojpur during the war. Jabbar was made chairman of local thana Peace Committee (collaborator) and he organised Razakar outfit in Mathbaria, according to investigation report.
Octogenarian engineer Jabbar of Khetachhira under Mothbaria police station in Pirojpur, was the vice-chairman of Jatiya Party. He remained absconding since 2009.
Jabbar joined the then Muslim League through his father-in-law, Arshed Ali, who was an influential Muslim League leader. Later, he joined the Jatiya Party of Gen (retd) HM Ershad and was twice elected Member of Parliament with Jatiya Party ticket in 1986 and 1988.
Source: UNBConnect
