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Court Summons Golam Azam & Others for a Show Cause on War Crime


A court on Monday summoned former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Golam Azam, incumbent chief Motiur Rahman Nizami, secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammed Mujahid, BNP leader Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury MP and 32 others to appear before it and face alleged charges of war crimes.

The court of Dhaka ninth additional district judge Iftekhar Ahmed also asked them to explain by July 20, why they would not be declared war criminals and disqualified from contesting any election in Bangladesh for the alleged crimes they had committed during Bangladesh's war of independence in 1971.

The court order came following a civil suit, filed by three lawyers on November 13, a month before the general elections last year, for declaring the accused war criminals and ineligible to contest elections in Bangladesh.

The chief election commissioner, Election Commission secretary and Dhaka deputy commissioner were also made defendants in the case.

The court also issued the directives to Maulana A K M Yusuf, Maulana Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, Abdul Kader Molla, Meer Kashem Ali, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Muhammad Kamaruzzman, Khaja Khairuddin (dead), Md Abdul Alim, Mohammad Ali, A S M Solaiman (dead), Fazlul Quader Chowdhury (dead), Julmat Ali Khan, Kazi Kader (dead), Shah Mohammad Azizur Rahman (dead), A B M Khaled Majumder, A N S Yusuf, A Q A Safiul Islam, Abdul Matin, Advocate Mohammad Ainuddin (dead), Goalm Sarwar, Maulana Abdus Sobhan, Captain (retired) Abdul Based, Abdul Matin Bhuiyan, Md Abdur Rahman, Obaidullah Majumder, Engineer Abdul Jabber, Barrister Korban Ali (dead), Ashraf Hossain, Advocate Ansar Ali, Md Kaiser, Abdul Majid Talukder and A K M Mosharraf Hossain.

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