The Election Commission is sending information of alleged war criminal Md Sakhawat Hossain to the International Crimes Tribunal’s investigation agency following its request.
Sakhawat was allegedly a commander of Razakar and Al-Badr force during the Liberation War in 1971.
Seeking anonymity, a senior assistant secretary of the EC yesterday said the investigation agency had sent a letter to the commission seeking information about Sakhawat.
The information being sent to the agency includes facts on the elections Sakhawat contested and the information provided by him to the EC for running in the polls, the senior official said, adding that the secretariat will present the letter in this regard at the commission’s meeting for formality.
An EC official said the commission did not have any detailed personal report on Sakhawat, as he did not contest in the 2008 parliamentary poll, when submitting affidavits prior to the poll became mandatory.
Sakhawat, however, contested parliament elections as a Jamaat-e-Islami candidate in 1991, a BNP candidate in 1996 and as a rebel candidate in 2001 in the Jessore 6 constituency; winning only in the 1991 election.
The official also said Sakhawat was at first a Jamaat member before joining the BNP. After that, he joined the Liberal Democratic Party and the Progressive Democratic Party before going on to join the Jatiya Party.
Earlier, the commission had also sent information on ATM Azharul Islam and Syed Md Qaiser to the tribunal agency.
According to the EC, Sakhawat Hossain is the son of Late Omar Ali and a resident of Hijaldanga village under Keshobpur thana in Jessore.