Sayedee with Pakistan army burned down 25 Hindu houses: IO
Dhaka, July 12 (UNB) - The investigation officer on Thursday told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 that he identified 25 houses at Umedpur Hindupara in Pirojpur were burned down after looting by Delwar Hossain Sayedee, then a Razakar commander, in association with the Pakistan occupation army during the Liberation War in 1971.
During the cross-examination for the 29th day by the defence counsel Mizanul Islam, IO ASP M Helal Uddin disclosed the names of 19 out of 25 ill-starred persons before the tribunal.
The IO, however, said he could not collect any sample of material evidence of the offences.
Replying to a question, IO Helal said during the War of Liberation, Capt Ejaj was the in-charge of the makeshift army camp at occupied Rajlaxmi High School at Parerhat.
Asked whether the school would take classes during the period, Helal said, “That I can’t say since it was occupied by the army.”
Insisted whether during his investigation he had collected any list of students studying in class ten in 1971 for recording their statements, the IO replied in the negative. He also said, “I didn’t take any initiative to record statements of the teachers and employees working in 1971 at Rajlaxmi High School.”
Replying to another question, Helal said there were more Hindupara (Minority-dominated areas) apart from Umedpur under Pirojpur and Zianagar Upazila.
The IO admitted that in his earlier statement before the tribunal mentioning the location of Parerhat area from where accused Sayedee had broken into a Hiundu house and taken away materials to his father-in laws house.
The cross-examinations remain inconclusive.
Detained Sayedee, nayeb-e-ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami that opposed the Liberation War, faces the charges of crimes against humanity, including genocide, rape, arson attacks, looting, forcibly converting Hindus into Muslims during the War in collaboration with the Pakistani occupation forces.
Earlier, the two-member tribunal, headed by Justice M Nizamul Huq, upon a defence plea declined to review its order allowing the prosecution plea, accepted 15 out of 19 prosecution witnesses’ recorded statements by the investigation officer as their testimonies against accused Sayedee.
The ICT section 19 (2) says: “A tribunal may receive in evidence any statement recorded by a magistrate or an investigation officer being a statement made by any person who, at the time of the trial, is dead or whose attendance cannot be produced without an amount of delay or expense which the tribunal considers unreasonable.”
During the cross-examination for the 29th day by the defence counsel Mizanul Islam, IO ASP M Helal Uddin disclosed the names of 19 out of 25 ill-starred persons before the tribunal.
The IO, however, said he could not collect any sample of material evidence of the offences.
Replying to a question, IO Helal said during the War of Liberation, Capt Ejaj was the in-charge of the makeshift army camp at occupied Rajlaxmi High School at Parerhat.
Asked whether the school would take classes during the period, Helal said, “That I can’t say since it was occupied by the army.”
Insisted whether during his investigation he had collected any list of students studying in class ten in 1971 for recording their statements, the IO replied in the negative. He also said, “I didn’t take any initiative to record statements of the teachers and employees working in 1971 at Rajlaxmi High School.”
Replying to another question, Helal said there were more Hindupara (Minority-dominated areas) apart from Umedpur under Pirojpur and Zianagar Upazila.
The IO admitted that in his earlier statement before the tribunal mentioning the location of Parerhat area from where accused Sayedee had broken into a Hiundu house and taken away materials to his father-in laws house.
The cross-examinations remain inconclusive.
Detained Sayedee, nayeb-e-ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami that opposed the Liberation War, faces the charges of crimes against humanity, including genocide, rape, arson attacks, looting, forcibly converting Hindus into Muslims during the War in collaboration with the Pakistani occupation forces.
Earlier, the two-member tribunal, headed by Justice M Nizamul Huq, upon a defence plea declined to review its order allowing the prosecution plea, accepted 15 out of 19 prosecution witnesses’ recorded statements by the investigation officer as their testimonies against accused Sayedee.
The ICT section 19 (2) says: “A tribunal may receive in evidence any statement recorded by a magistrate or an investigation officer being a statement made by any person who, at the time of the trial, is dead or whose attendance cannot be produced without an amount of delay or expense which the tribunal considers unreasonable.”
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