Akram sent to jail
Sunday, 22 June 2014
A tribunal in Dhaka dealing with war crimes cases sent war crimes suspect Akram Hossain Khan of Bagerhat’s Morelganj upazila to jail after police produced him before it on Sunday. Police arrested Akram on Friday and produced him before the 3-member panel of International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 on Sunday morning. The tribunal ordered to send him to jail and also asked him to appoint a lawyer. In 2009, freedom fighter (FF) Nimai Chandra Das of Raghuduttakathi village of Kachua in Bagerhat, filed a case against 20-30 people, including Akram and Abdul Latif Talukder, with a Bagerhat court after the government initiated the war crimes trial process. The case was later shifted to the ICT-1 and the agency started its investigation on May 21, 2013. On June 11, police arrested Abdul Latif. Akram, 67, went into hiding after an arrest warrant was issued against him by the ICT-1 on June 10. During investigation, Akram was found involved in killing 42 people at ‘Shankharikathi Bazar’ in Bagerhat and looting, torching shops on May 5, 1971, according to a news agency.