[Bangla Daily Star] A Chittagong court on Wednesday rejected the bail prayers of Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami...During the liberation war of 1971, Nizami formed the Al-Badr Force and acted as its supreme commander. The Al-Badr militia took active part in rape, extortion, looting and killing of Bangladeshis who supported the liberation, including a pre-planned massacre on December 14, 1971, when the Al-Badr militia along with Pakistan Army rounded up hundreds of doctors, professors, writers, and other Bengali intellectuals, and executed them...
and two other charge-sheeted accused in two cases relating to 10-truck arms haul in 2004.
Judge SM Muzibur Rahman of Chittagong Metropolitan Special Tribunal-1 passed the order after the defence lawyers submitted separate petitions to the court seeking bail for the three accused.
The two other accused are: Enamul Hoque, former general manager (admin) of Chittagong Urea Fertiliser Ltd (CUFL), and Deen Mohammad.
All of the eleven set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock accused, including Nizami and state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar, were produced before the tribunal at 11:45am Wednesday.
The court fixed October 3 as the next date for hearing, reports our Chittagong correspondent.
It also asked the authorities concerned to publish an advertisement in two national dailies the two runaway accused -- Ulfa leader Paresh Barua and former additional secretary of industries ministry Nurul Amin -- to appear before it on October 3 in connection with the cases.
The two cases were filed -- one for smuggling firearms and the other under the arms act -- a day after ten truckloads of arms and ammunitions were seized at a CUFL jetty in the port city on April 2, 2004.
Earlier on August 8, another court in Chittagong rejected bail prayer of former state minister for Babar in the two cases.