The investigation agency of the war crimes tribunal will submit its probe report on former Jamaat-e-Islami vice-president Maulana Abdus Sobhan to the prosecution within Sunday.
Officials concerned told the Dhaka Tribune Thursday that Sobhan, 84, had been involved in murder, confinement, abduction and loot as crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.
He was the acting chief of Pabna district Jamaat and vice-president of district Peace Committee. In 2001, he was elected as a parliament member from Pabna 5 constituency.
On Saturday, the probe agency will unveil the report at a formal press briefing. Later, the prosecution will prepare the formal charges and submit to the International Crimes Tribunal 1, which earlier set Sunday for submission of the charges.
Detectives arrested Sobhan on September 20 last year at the eastern part of Bangabandhu Jamuna Bridge in Tangail.
Investigation Officer Nur Islam said Sobhan had formed razakar and al-Badr forces that collaborated with the Pakistani occupation army, in Pabna during 1971. He planned and supervised almost every activity of the forces.
Sobhan was fluent in Urdu, and for this, he had easily managed to come close to the Pakistanis and became a policymaker of the anti-liberation forces. At that time, Maulana Ishaque was among the accomplices of Sobhan. Witnesses in the case against Jamaat chief Motiur Rahman Nizami too mentioned about Sobhan in the formation of Peace Committee in Pabna.
He got nomination in the by-elections held in late 1971. The next year, Sobhan was accused by a special tribunal of collaborating with the Pakistan army. The tribunal summoned him to be present on February 29, 1972.
But before that he had gone to Pakistan with former Jamaat chief Ghulam Azam. He, however, resumed in politics after the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975.
Sobhan had been involved in the mass killings in Kuchiapara, Shakharipara and Sujanagar areas, witnesses told the investigation agency.