The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) 2 has issued a warrant of arrest against eight Jamaat leaders of Jamalpur for committing horrific crimes against humanity in 1971.
The second tribunal issued the warrant, accepting a plea from prosecutor Tapas Kanti Bal, reports BSS.
The eight men are Md Ashraf Hossain, 64, Prof Sharif Ahmed, 71, Md Abdul Mannan, 66, Md Abdul Bari, 62, Md Harun, 58, Md Abul Hashem, 65, Advocate Shamsul Haque, 70, and SM Eusuf Ali, 83.
All of them are leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami and the first six carried out gruesome crimes as Al-Badr men with Ashraf, accused no 1, as their leader.
The tribunal set March 30 as the deadline for submitting a progress report on the investigation against them.
