A High Court bench has refused to hear a writ petition filed by SQ Chowdhury’s wife challenging the constitutional provision of trying an individual for war crimes offences.
The bench of Justice Tariqul Hakim and Justice Farid Ahmed Shiblee dropped the petition from the cause list yesterday; Farhat Quader Chowdhury, the wife of Chittagong’s war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, had filed it earlier this month.
The court said the High Court had issued a verdict on this issue in 2010 and the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court had already given its judgements on several war crimes cases.
“The court said it would be a waste of time if a matter already decided upon was heard again,” said Deputy Attorney General Amatul Karim. The petitioner can now go to another bench if they wanted, he told reporters.