The High Court has granted one year's bail to executed war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury's lawyer Barrister Fakhrul Islam in the case of leaking the verdict of the war criminal.
The bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Md Amir Hossain passed the order on Monday morning, Deputy Attorney General AKM Moniruzzaman Kabir told the Dhaka Tribune.
Barrister Fakhrul Islam was arrested on November 19, 2013 from his office.
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The ICT on October 1, 2013, sentenced SQ Chowdhury to death for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
But night before the verdict, a major portion of the verdict was found available on various online portals.
Two days after the verdict’s leak, on October 2, DB personnel arrested two ICT employees – Nayan Ali and Mohammad Faruq — who admitted to stealing the verdict’s copy using a USB drive from a personal computer at the ICT-1 offices and supplying it to Barrister Fakrul’s apprentice Mehedi Hasan.
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Sources say the ICT employees stole the verdict’s copy for a sum of money after being provoked by Fakrul’s lawyer.
DB officials on November 5 also filed a case accusing Nayan, Faruq, and Mehedi by name and also against several unnamed others and raided the office of Fakkrul’s chamber and seized various documents related to the verdict’s leak.
The computer from which the verdict’s copy was stolen was designated to the tribunal chairman, Justice ATM Fazle Kabir. Detained Nayan Ali also had access to the computer.
On November 5, Monirul Islam, Joint Commissioner of DB, said the leaked copy of the verdict was uploaded online from the UK where it was sent through emails.
The government executed notorious war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury after completing all legal procedures on November 22, in line with the International Crimes Tribunal verdict.