The verdict against Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdus Subhan, who is facing nine charges of alleged crimes against humanity, which he committed during the Liberation War in 1971, is likely to be announced by the War Crimes Tribunal on Wednesday.
Subhan, the alleged vice-chairman of anti-liberation Peace Committee in Pabna in 1971, faces charges, including killing and genocide committed the district, reports the Daily Star.
The chairman of the International Crimes Tribunal-2, Justice Obaid-ul-Hasan today fixed tomorrow for delivering the verdict.
The charges brought against Subhan are based on incidents that took place in Pabna between April 13 and October 30 in 1971, in which several hundred people were killed.
At the end of the war in 1971, Subhan fled to Pakistan. He was arrested on September 20, 2012, and after a 17-month-long probe, the war crimes investigation agency submitted its probe report to the prosecution on September 12, 2013. Three days later, the prosecution submitted formal charges.
Tribunal-1 on December 31, 2013 framed nine war crimes charges against Subhan. Later, the case was moved to Tribunal-2.