The charge framing hearing against Jamaat-e-Islami Assistant Secretary General ATM Azharul Islam has been deferred to August 29.
The International Crimes Tribunal 1 adjourned the proceedings since it was busy the whole day with the case against Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Kashem Ali.
The three-member panel led by Justice ATM Fazle Kabir passed the deferment order on Sunday following a petition submitted by the defence lawyers seeking permission to meet ATM Azharul Islam at the jail gate.
The tribunal granted two defence lawyers permission to meet their client at the jail gate on August 24.
The prosecution on July 18 pressed six charges against Azhar that include mass murder, killings, rape and arson.
According to the investigation agency, Azhar was an HSC student at Carmichael College during the 1971 Liberation War. He was involved in crimes against humanity as a member of Islami Chhatra Sangha, the then student wing of Jamaat.
He later became part of the paramilitary al-Badr force that sided with the Pakistani occupation forces.
The charges say Azhar was involved in mass killing in Rangpur where around 1,225 people were killed during the war. He was also involved in killing four people, abducting 17, raping one, confining 12, torturing 13, and looting and torching numerous houses in the district.
Azharul allegedly killed six lecturers of Carmichael College, including Chityaranjan Ray of the mathematics department; Shah Solaiman Ali of the Urdu department; and Kalachand Ray of the chemistry department, as well as his wife.
The Jamaat leader was detained from his residence at Maghbazar on August 22 last year.