The Cyber Crime Tribunal yesterday deferred for the seventh time the hearing on charge framing in a case filed over the leak of draft verdict in BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury’s war crimes case.
Tribunal judge KM Shamsul Alam set November 29 granting a time petition filed by the defence. The court also mentioned that it would be the last adjournment in the indictment hearing. It also rejected the bail petitions filed on behalf of two accused – Salauddin’s manager Mahbubul Ahsan and war tribunal employee Faruk Hossain.
The time petition submitted by counsel of Salauddin’s son Hummam Quader Chowdhury said that he could not appear before the court due to illness.
The other charge-sheeted accused are the convicted war criminal’s wife Farhat Quader Chowdhury, his counsel barrister AKM Fakhrul Islam, Fakhrul’s deputy Mehedi Hasan and International Crimes Tribunal employee Nayan Ali. Of them, Hummam and his mother are on bail.
DB Inspector Md Shahjahan, also investigation officer of the case, submitted the charge sheet on August 28 last year accusing the seven of stealing information from the tribunal chairman’s computer before Salauddin’s verdict on October 1, 2013.
