War crimes investigators yesterday submitted their probe report on 12 alleged war criminals from Jessore, who had been under the radar since November 2013.
Investigation Officer Abdur Razzak Khan submitted the 42-page report, with findings on ex-BNP and Jamaat lawmaker Shakhawat Hossain and 11 others, to the chief prosecutor’s office in the morning.
As part of their probe, investigators reportedly found that the accused men were involved in killing two persons, raping one, and torturing two others in Keshabpur of Jessore during the Liberation War in 1971.
“If the probe is satisfactory, we will submit formal charges against them with the tribunal,” said Prosecutor Zead Al Malum.
Of the 12 alleged war criminals, four, including Shakhawat, have been arrested so far.
Law enforcers arrested 61-year-old Shakhawat, who is now involved in Jatiya Party’s politics, from his Uttar Khan house on November 29 last year.
According to the investigation agency, Shakhawat, who was reportedly a central committee member of Islami Chhatra Sangha in 1971, acted as a razakar commander at Chingri Bazar during the war.
Three others were arrested on May 12 this year; they are Billal Hossain Biswas, 75, of Nehalpur village, Akram Hossain, 59, of Bhalukghar Mollapara and Ajihar Morol, 64, of Chingra village.
The suspects on the run are: Ibrahim Hossain of Nehalpur, Sheikh Md Mujibur Rahman and Kazi Ohidul Islam of Shekhpura, Aziz Sardar of Mominpur, Aziz Sardar of Boga, Lutfar Morol of Porchakra, Abdul Khaleq Morol of Altapol and Moshiar Rahman of Chingra could not be arrested.