Attorney General Mahbubey Alam yesterday told the top court that what the prosecution witnesses said about Delawar Hossain Sayedee’s war crimes in their testimonies at the tribunal had been published in press 12-14 years ago.
So, it is clear that the allegations were not new and the Jamaat-e-Islami leader had committed such crimes in Pirojpur during the 1971 Liberation War, he said.
The top law officer of the country said according to the media reports, “Deilya Razakar” of ‘71 later took the name Delawar Hossain Sayedee which could not be overlooked. The press published such reports on the basis of evidence, he argued.
Mahbubey Alam said these while placing arguments on the charge of killing Ibrahim Kutti where the Jamaat leader was given death penalty.
Assistant Attorney General Bashir Ahmed assisted Mahbubey Alam while Supreme Court lawyer SM Shahjahan represented Sayedee.
The five-member Appellate Division bench led by Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain would resume the hearing on Sunday on the war crimes appeals case.
The International Crimes Tribunal 1 gave death sentence to Sayedee on February 28 last year. Later, the Jamaat leader lodged an appeal with the apex for acquittal on March 28 while the government also registered an appeal to specify the punishment in all the six charges that were proved at the tribunal.
