The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has sentenced five war criminals of Netrokona to death for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
A three-member bench, led by Justice Shahinur Islam, handed down the verdict on Thursday.
The five convicts are Abdul Khaleque Talukdar, Sheikh Abdul Mazid alias Mazid Maulana, Kabir Khan, Abdus Salam Beg, and Nuruddin alias Roddin. All of them are residents of Purbadhala upazila. They were tried in absentia.
On January 28 last, the court kept pending its verdict in the case filed against them.
The prosecution pressed charges against a total of seven people over the killing, showing their involvement in killing eight people after abduction, torching eight houses, looting valuables, and violating a woman during the Liberation War.
Mokhlesur Rahman Badal and Sabina Yeasmin Khan Munni served as the prosecutors of the case, while Advocate Gazi HM Tamim stood for the accused at the directive of the state, reports UNB.
Sabina said the tribunal had issued arrest warrants for all the seven accused on August 12, 2015. Following the tribunal order, police managed to arrest only Abdur Rahman.
Abdur Rahman died during the trial proceedings in 2016. Another accused, Ahmed Ali, met the same fate in October 2015 at the age of 78.
Abdul Quadir, a freedom fighter of Purbadhala upazila of Netrokona district and brother of one of the victims, filed the case in 2013.
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