ICT-1 gets report on Mir Kashem probe

The prosecution on Sunday submitted to the International Crimes Tribunal a report on the progress of investigation into war crimes allegedly committed by Jamaat-e-Islami central leader Mir Kashem Ali.
Prosecutor Sultan Mahmud submitted the progress report as soon as the tribunal had started its day's proceedings in the morning.
ICT-1 led by Justice Nizamul Haque ordered to complete the investigation by September 27.
After submission of the report, prosecutor appealed to the tribunal to give them time to complete the investigation against the Jamaat leader.
In this situation, the tribunal asked the prosecution to complete the investigation by the stipulated time or submit a report before it on the progress of investigation on that very day.
Mir Kashem was produced before the tribunal from Dhaka Central Jail during the day's proceedings.
Kashem was arrested at a newspaper office in Dhaka on June 17 two hours within the tribunal had issued arrest warrant against him for his alleged involvement with crimes against humanity.
The tribunal later sent him to jail with a custodial warrant.
Mir Kashem, who lived in Harirampur of Manikganj in Chittagong in 1971, was known as Mintu then.
In his youth, he was an activist of the Islami Chhatra Sangha, the then student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami.
Six top Jamaat leaders--Ghulam Azam, Matiur Rahman Nizami, Delawar Hossain Sayedee, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, Mohammad Kamaruzzaman and Quader Mollah--and two BNP leaders--Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury and Abdul Alim--are now being tried before the tribunals.