Within two minutes of its sitting, the International Crimes Tribunal-2 (ICT) Thursday adjourned its scheduled proceedings responding to a prosecution plea, reports UNB.
Thursday was scheduled for providing testimony of the prosecution witness (PW-21) against Jamaat-e-Islami stalwart Maulana Abdus Sobhan of Pabna.
As the tribunal resumed its sitting, prosecutor Zead Al Malum submitted a time petition for a week since PW-21 M Shahidullah 'fell sick and not fit' for providing testimony against the detained accused, now in the dock.
Hearing from the prosecutor, the three-member tribunal, headed by Justice Obaidul Hassan, asked him to present the next PW in order to make the trial proceedings continue unhindered.
But prosecutor Malum failing to do that sought a seven-day adjournment for 'fitness' of the PW-21, rendering the tribunal jobless, ignoring the restriction of adjournment provision under the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act 1973.
Section 13 of the ICT Act says: "No trial before a tribunal shall be adjourned for any purpose unless the tribunal is of the opinion that the adjournment is in the interest of justice."
The tribunal, however, adjourned the proceedings until July 16.
Meanwhile, the International Crimes Tribubnal-1 remains idle without any proceedings since Wednesday.
War crimes trial against Sobhan adjourned
FE Team | Published: July 11, 2014 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00
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