Crimes against humanity
Abdul Alim. Photo Courtesy : Prothom Alo Police picked him in front of his Joypurhat residence on Sunday evening, said the district’s superintendent of police.
Earlier, the International Crimes Tribunal issued the arrest warrant for Alim who was a member of Ziaur Rahman’s cabinet.
A three-judge panel headed by Justice Nizamul Huq ordered police to produce Alim before the tribunal within 24 hours of his arrest, excluding the journey period.
The court, however, directed law enforcers to consider health of Alim, aged over 80, while arresting him and producing him before it.
The tribunal issued the warrant in response to a petition filed by the prosecutors on March 23.
Alim was involved in the killing of more than 10,000 innocent people with the assistance of Razakars and Pakistani occupation forces during the Liberation War, reads the petition.
The petition also stated that Alim, the then peace committee chairman in Joypurhat, killed local Awami League leader Dr Abul Kashem on July 26, 1971.
Alim should be arrested to be quizzed, the petitioners insist.
Meanwhile, the tribunal adjourned till April 5 the hearing on another petition filed by the prosecutors seeking permission for a three-day interrogation of Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami in the custody of the war crimes probe body.
The court asked the prosecutors to inform it by April 5 about the place where the detained Jamaat leader would be kept during the interrogation.
The prosecutors filed the petition on March 23.
They also submitted a petition to the tribunal’s registrar to allow the investigation agency to quiz detained Jamaat secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed for three days in its custody.
Advocate Syed Rezaur Rahman and barrister Syed Haider Ali appeared as prosecutors, while advocate Tajul Islam stood for Nizami.
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