The jail authorities yesterday submitted health report on top war crimes suspect Motiur Rahman Nizami to the International Crimes Tribunal mentioning that the accused was improving, but not fit yet.
The tribunal’s registrar office received the report around 3pm, Registrar AKM Nasiruddin Mahmud said.
Arunava Chakravarty, deputy registrar of the tribunal, told the Dhaka Tribune that the jail authorities would place another report when Nizami’s condition stabilised. No initiative might be taken before Sunday as the report reached the tribunal at the eleventh hour of the last working day, he said.
On Tuesday, only an hour before pronouncing the verdict, the jail authorities in a letter told the tribunal that the Jamaat-e-Islami chief could not be brought before it due to his illness. Later the tribunal considered it not logical to pronounce the judgement in absence of the accused.
It also ordered the jail authorities to submit a full report on Nizami’s health condition as soon as possible.
The accused was fit on Monday after the verdict date was announced at noon and when he was taken to Dhaka from Kashimpur jail in the evening.
He fell sick in the midnight, and two jail doctors checked him. Upon their advice, the jail authorities did not place him before the tribunal.
The doctors said Nizami, a former minister during BNP-Jamaat’s 2001-06 tenure, was facing some physical complications including high blood pressure and diabetes.
