SC seeks concise

SC seeks concise statements on Alim verdict

Star Online Report

This October 9, 2013 photo shows law enforcers taking former BNP minister Abdul Alim to the International Crimes Tribunal-2 in Dhaka before delivering verdict in a case filed against him for committing crimes against humanity during Liberation War.

The Supreme Court (SC) today directed both the state counsels and convicted war criminal Abdul Alim to submit by March 11 concise statements on an appeal against a tribunal verdict that sentenced him to imprisonment till death for committing war crimes in 1971.
A concise statement contains the legal points on which arguments are placed before the apex court.
On October 9, the International Crimes Tribunal-2, considering Alim’s poor health, sentenced the 83-year old BNP leader to imprisonment till death for his wartime offences.
A five-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain passed the order as the case came up in the hearing list of the SC for an order today.
A former BNP minister, Alim filed the appeal challenging the judgement delivered by the tribunal-2.
He prayed to the apex court to acquit him from all the charges of the case against him.
In the appeal, Alim said he was not involved in any crimes against humanity committed during the war.
He claimed that he was neither the chairman nor a member of Peace Committee, an auxiliary force of the Pakistan army, in Joypurhat.
The tribunal had wrongly convicted him and sentenced him to imprisonment on the basis of false hearsay statements made by prosecution witnesses, he added in the appeal.