The Dhaka court issued arrest warrant against the wife and son of convicted war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and one other in connection with the case filed over leakage of the draft verdict of war crimes case.
Dhaka Cyber Tribunal Judge KM Shamsul Alam passed the order on Monday.
Special Public Prosecutor of the tribunal Md Nazrul Islam Shamim told the Dhaka Tribune that the court also asked the Dhanmondi and Satkhira police stations, under which the three reside, to submit execution reports on October 30.
‘‘The court also asked the jail authorities to produce four other accused, who are now in jail, before it on the same day," he added.
After completion of the investigation into the much-talked-about draft verdict leakage incident, DB Inspector Mohammad Shahjahan, also the Investigation Officer of the case pressed the charge sheet to the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s (CMM) court on August 28.
After receiving the charge sheet, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court of Dhaka on October 12 transferred the case to the cyber tribunal for trial.
The charge sheeted accused are Salauddin Quader’s wife Farhat Quader Chowdhury, son Hummam Quader Chowdhury, his manager Mahbubul Ahsan, his counsel Barrister AKM Fakhrul Islam, Fakhrul’s junior counsel Mehedi Hasan, International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) employees Nayan Ali and Faruk Hossain.
Out of the accused, Salauddin Quader’s wife, son and Mehedi Hassan are on the run while the four others are now in jail.
The IO also mentioned 25 people's names as prosecution witnesses in the charge sheet.
According to the charge sheet, the men leaked parts of the draft verdict from the tribunal and it was uploaded on the websites to make the war crimes trial controversial and questionable.
The verdict copy was sent abroad through e-mail and later it was uploaded on different websites from abroad.
