The International Crimes Tribunal-2 (ICT-2) kept its verdict pending Thursday to be delivered any day on the war crimes case against Maulana A Sobhan, a top figure of Jamaat-e-Islami, now in custody, reports UNB.
Closing the summing-up arguments on factual and law points from both sides, the three-member tribunal, headed by Justice Obaidul Hassan, passed the order.
In all, 31 prosecution witnesses (PWs), including two investigation officers, gave their evidence against the 85-year-old Jamaat leader.
The tribunal on December 31, 2013 framed charges against accused Maulana Sobhan for his involvement in crimes against humanity, including genocide, during the Liberation War under sections 3(2) and 4(1) (2) of the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act 1973.
On September 20, 2012, Sobhan, the number three man in the Jamaat leadership hierarchy, was held by members of an army intelligence agency at the Bangabandhu Bridge toll plaza in Tangail in a case of violence. Later, the accused was handed over to the police.
The tribunal, upon a prosecution plea, had shown Sobhan arrested in the case of 1971 crimes against humanity.
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