Dhaka: International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) will deliver the verdict on Tuesday in a case against Pirojpur Jatiya Party former lawmaker Abdul Jabbar for his alleged crimes against humanity committed during the Liberation War in 1971.

The three-member tribunal panel headed by Justice Enayatur Rahim on Monday fixed Tuesday for delivering the verdict as the matter came up on the cause list for order.

The tribunal kept the judgment pending to be delivered any day, after closing the summing-up arguments on factual and law points from both sides on 3 December 2014.

During the trial, the prosecution produced 24 prosecution witnesses, including senior assistant superintendent Helal Uddin, investigation officer of the case, to prove the charges brought against the fugitive accused.

On August 14 2014, the tribunal framed charges on five counts against Abdul Jabbar for his involvement in crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War after fulfilling the requirement of law for trying a fugitive accused, including the appointment of state defence counsel.

According to the prosecution, fugitive Jabbar is believed to have been living in the USA.

The investigator ‘found’ Jabbar’s involvement in crimes like killing, genocide, arson, looting and forcefully converting many Hindus to Muslims in the then Mathbaria thana of Pirojpur during the war. Jabbar had been made chairman of local thana peace committee (collaborator) and he then organised infamous Razakar outfit in Mathbaria, according to an investigation report.

Jabbar of Khetachhira in Mathbaria was the vice-chairman of Jatiya Party. He had joined the Pakistan Muslim League through his father-in-law, Arshed Ali Hawlader, who was an influential Muslim League leader at that time.

Jabbar later joined the Jatiya Party of Gen (retd) HM Ershad and was elected MP twice with the party tickets in 1986 and 1988.