War crimes convict Salauddin Quader Chowdhury’s lawyer AKM Fakhrul Islam, who was arrested over an alleged leak of the war crimes tribunal’s verdict on the BNP leader, has been sent to jail.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Keshab Roy Chowdhury on Thursday sent him to jail and fixed Nov 24 for hearing on a seven-day remand prayer of the police.
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The court wanted a hearing on its remand plea on Thursday but it could not take place as the case docket was not available. Besides, Fakhrul was also ill.
Police had on Wednesday arrested Fakhrul from the capital’s Segunbagicha.
The first war crimes tribunal of Bangladesh sentenced BNP MP Salauddin Quader to death for his Liberation War-time atrocities.
However, the convict’s family claimed the verdict had been ‘leaked’ before it was delivered in the court. They had produced a copy of the verdict published on a website.
The tribunal had filed a General Diary over the reported leak.
After a probe, a case was filed accusing three persons under the Information Technology Act.
Police seized two computers and a number of documents from Fakhrul Islam’s Kakrail office in Oct.
The tribunal’s employee Nayan Ali and typist Faruk Hossain were arrested and remanded in this connection.
Nayan issued a confessional statement before the court in which Faruk’s involvement in the alleged leak had come to light, according to police.
Detective police say one of Fakhrul’s associates had lured Nayan to take a copy of the verdict’s draft from the tribunal’s computer. Tribunal employee Faruk had abetted him in this.
Nayan is also now behind bars while Mehedi, an associate of Fakhrul, is on the run.
Source: Bd news24