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The International Crimes Tribunal-1 fined the defence of Ghulam Azam
Tk 1,000 while the Tribunal-2 asked Alim’s lawyer to submit Tk 2,000 to
the government treasury as fine.
TRIBUNAL-1
The tribunal led by Justice ATM Fazle Kabir fined Ghulam
Azam’s lawyers after a defence lawyer, Mizanur Rahman, submitted a
prayer seeking adjournment of today’s hearing citing absence of other
defence lawyers.
Mizanur submitted an application of defence counsel Mizanul Islam
before the tribunal. In his application, Mizanul said he could not
attend the tribunal due to ‘personal difficulties’.
Prosecutor Ziad Al-Malum protested the adjournment prayer terming it as a ‘dilatory practice’.
The court observed that two more defence lawyers — Abdur Razzak and Tajul Islam — also remained absent today.
It fined the defence and asked to deposit the fine money to the government treasury.
The tribunal accepted the adjournment petition and fixed Thursday for
hearing the closing argument in the case filed against Ghulam Azam, who
is facing five charges — conspiracy, planning, incitement, complicity,
torture and murder — for the wartime offences.
The ICT-1 however said the ground for seeking adjournment is not satisfactory.
TRIBUNAL-2
The court fined Alim’s counsel Khalilur Rahman Tk 5,000 as he remained absent at the tribunal without any “valid ground”.
It ordered Khalilur to pay the money to the treasury by March 14 and submit a compliance report to the tribunal.
Today was fixed for the cross examination of Laily Begum, the
12thprosecution witness in the case against Alim but no senior defence
counsel was present at the court room.
Huzzatul Islam Khan, a junior defence counsel, told the tribunal that
his senior counsel Ahasanul Huq Hena could not appear before tribunal
for his illness but he could not say anything about two other senior
defence counsels Khalilur Rahman and Munshi Ahsan Kabir.
Huzzatul prayed for adjournment as the senior counsels could not attend the tribunal.
The tribunal adjourned the trial proceedings and asked the junior
counsel to reach the tribunal along with his senior counsels by until
2:00pm.
The tribunal passed the order as the senior counsels failed to reach the tribunal when it resumed the proceedings at 2:20pm.
Earlier, the tribunal fined Munshi Ahsan Kabir Tk 2,000 for his absence without any valid ground.
Prosecutor Rana Das Gupta, accused Abdul Alim and a number of journalists were present during the proceedings today.
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