War crimes accused Jamaat-e-Islami Central Executive Committee member Mir Kashem Ali, also a key financier of the party has been taken to Dhaka Central Jail from Kashimpur Jail in Gazipur.
The prison van carrying war crimes accused arrived at 2:30pm on Friday.
Mir Kashem was brought out from the respective condemned cell of Kashimpur High Security Jail around 12pm, Dhaka central Jail 2 Super at Kashimpur Jahangir Kabir endorsed the information to the Dhaka Tribune.
The International Crimes Tribunal 2 has fixed Sunday for pronouncing judgment in the war crimes case against Mir Kashem Ali.
Justice Md Mozibur Rahman Miah, senior member of the two-member tribunal, set the date on Thursday in a short order, nearly six months after the trial ended. The tribunal chairman is now on leave.
It also directed the jail authorities to produce the 62-year-old accused by 10am on that day. After an oral plea by the prosecution, the tribunal directed the registrar to issue a production warrant in this regard.
The prosecution sought for death for Mir Kashem terming him “Bangalee Khan” of 1971 when he had been the Chittagong district unit chief of al-Badr, a vigilante group of Jamaat. They claimed that all the charges against the “man eater of ‘71” had been proved beyond reasonable doubt through strong witnesses and evidence.