The International Crimes Tribunal is set to deliver its verdict any day in the war crimes case against Syed Hasan Ali, an alleged razakar commander from Kishoreganj.
After concluding hearing arguments yesterday, the International Crimes Tribunal 1 led by its chairman Justice M Enayetur Rahim kept the case CAV (Curia Advisari Vult), meaning the verdict could be delivered any day.
The 65-year-old absconding Hasan Ali faces six charges of crimes against humanity committed in Kishoreganj during the Liberation War.
According to the prosecution, Hasan Ali was the commander of the Tarail unit of the razakar forces and was involved with Nezam-e-Islami, an anti-liberation organisation; however, he is not active in politics any more.
On November 11 last year, the tribunal charged Hasan Ali with torching and looting seven houses of one Hasan Ahmed of Sachail village; complicity in killing one Tofazzal, abduction of two other people and burning of two houses in Konabhawal village; and involvement in killing 12 persons and torching 10 houses in Shimulhati village.
He was also charged with killing eight people and abducting 10 others in Borgaon village; abduction and murder of two and looting one of their houses in Araiura village; and having links to the killing of Rashid Ali Bepari and torching 100 houses in Sachail village.
