DHAKA: International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 on Tuesday adjourned the hearing for presenting arguments supporting Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-e-Ameer Abdus Subhan on legal points till Wednesday.

A three-member tribunal led by Justice Obaidul Hasan passed the adjournment order and also asked them to end the arguments by Wednesday.

Subhan’s lawyer Advocate Mizanul Islam presented the arguments on allegations against him on the 5th working days.

Earlier from November 5 to November 17, Chief Prosecutor Golam Arif Tipu, prosecutor Ziad Al Malum, , prosecutors Sultan Mahmud Simon and Razia Sultana Chaman presented arguments on all nine allegations of Abdus Subhan’s involvement with crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.

Judicial procedures of the case will be completed through placing arguments by the lawyers of Subhan.

However, on March 27, ICT-1 handed over the case against Subhan to ICT-2. He was charge-sheeted on December 31 in 2013.

The tribunal took cognizance of the formal charge against the accused on September 19 and the prosecution submitted the formal charge-sheet on September 15 in 2013.

On September 20 in 2012, Subhan was arrested following a warrant, issued against him by a Pabna court.

Later, he was shown arrested in the case of committing crimes against humanity during the war.

According to the prosecution, Subhan was the Pabna unit Jamaat Ameer just before the liberation war and had formed Peace Committee, Al-Badr and Razakar (collaborating forces) in his locality and committed crimes against humanity there.

BDST: 1815 HRS, NOV 25, 2014