A case for murdering Freedom Fighters in 1971 was filed against 13 people including the Ameer, secretary general and two assistant secretaries general of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh with the Chief Judicial Magistrate's (CJM's) Court of Dhaka yesterday.
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Muzaffar Ahmed Khan, former Commander of Freedom Fighters of Keraniganj Thana, filed the case bringing charges of killings against Motiur Rahman Nizami, Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid and assistant secretaries general Abdul Kader Mollah and Mohammad Quamruzzaman, and nine others.
Muzaffar Ahmed Khan brought charges against the accused persons for killing two of his nephews during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971.
After examining the informant complainant, Judicial Magistrate of Dhaka Ashiqul Khabir recorded his deposition and ordered the officer-in-charge of Keraniganj police station to file a regular case against the accused and conduct investigation into the killing.
In his complaint, Muzaffar Ahmed Khan mentioned that at the directives of the alleged persons, the cadres of Razakar, Al-Badr and Al-Shams, who were collaborators of the Pakistani occupation army in 1971, killed his nephews Freedom Fighter Golam Mostafa and Freedom Fighter Osman Gani by repeated charge of bayonets and opening gunfire on them in broad daylight at Shaheed Nagar under Keraniganj police station in Dhaka district on November 25 in 1971.
As he received the news of the killing of his nephews, Muzaffar Ahmed Khan added, he along with fellow Freedom Fighters rushed to the spot of occurrence and locked into a fierce fight with the Pakistani occupation forces, but the Freedom Fighters' squad had to retreat from the spot. After the clash, he said, the Pakistani occupation forces indiscriminately opened fire on the innocent people of Keraniganj killing a few thousand of them and torched their houses.
Though the alleged persons were arrested immediately after the country's independence, the post-1975 government freed them, Muzaffar Ahmed Khan said, adding for that reason he had been deprived of getting justice for the murder of a few thousand inhabitants of Keraniganj including two of his nephews.
Advocate Abdur Razzak Mia, Advocate Shafiqul Bashar Bhandari, Advocate Shah Ashraful Huq George and Advocate Akhtaruzzaman Bhuiyan moved the case on behalf of the complainant.
Agencies add: Apart from Matiur Rahman Nizami, the others accused in the case are Jamaat secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid, assistant secretary general Abdul Kader Molla and Mohammad Qamaruzzaman, Keraniganj thana Ameer Haji Nazimuddin. Dhaka district Ameer Abul Hashem, Faizur Rahman Fayej, KG Karim Babla, Mohammad Yasin, Dr Joynal, Abdul Khaleque (posthumous), Abdul Mannan Siddiqi (posthumous) and Puinya Albadar (posthumous).
The petitioner said the accused at the behest of General Tikka Khan of the Pakistan occupation force formed Razakar, Al-badr and Al-shams bahinis and declared war against the Mujibnagar government of Bangladesh on April 17, 1971.
According to case details, some 60 to 70 members of Razakar, Al Badr and Al Shams with assignment from the accused Jamaat leaders had allegedly killed a number of Freedom Fighters in Keraniganj in 1971.
The complainant also charged them with arson in Ghatarchar village in the area during the bloody war against Pakistani military and their local collaborators.
After the war ended, Ghatarchar had been renamed Shaheed Nagar, or 'Neighbourhood of Martyrs', since many Freedom Fighters were killed in the village by the collaborators of the Pakistani forces in 1971.
The complainant mentioned in his appeal that the accused killed his two nephews when they returned home from the camps of Freedom Fighters to see their mother on Nov 25, 1971.
They allegedly killed Osman Gani Khan and Golam Mostafa, after raiding their home and later set the home on fire.
On information, the complainant with his team of Freedom Fighters tried to approach the house from nearby Kolatia camp but Nizami, Mujahid, Kader Molla and Qamaruzzaman informed the Pakistani forces for action in the meantime, the case alleged.
The collaborators later set fire to the complainant's home and two villages, he said in his appeal to the court.
The charges came amid renewed calls by various socio-political groups that the government put the "war criminals" on trial.
On Sunday, some major political parties boycotted a Victory Day ceremony at the Bangabhaban protesting the invitation of Jamaat leaders to the presidential programme.
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