Draft law to be placed before cabinet for Jamaat’s trial:Daily Sun

  The law ministry is likely to place a draft law before the cabinet seeking its nod to bring Bangladesh Jamaat-E-Islami under trial. “The ministry will place the draft before the cabinet in its next meeting,” Law Minister Anisul Haq told reporters at a briefing at his residence. The minister came up with the statement while giving his reaction to the International Crimes Tribunal’s verdict awardi
ng death penalty to Jamaat Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami for war crimes. The minister said initiatives have been taken to amend the law in a bid to try the party. The government took the move to drive away confusion from people’s mind as rumour has been in the air that the government might make an underhand negotiation with Jamaat, which opposed the country’s war of independence and was involved in genocide during the liberation war in 1971. General people have been asking the government to formulate the law so that the party cannot run politics in the country, which has earned its independence through blood and supreme sacrifice of millions. Amid people’s desire, the government earlier said it could not ban Jamaat from politics as a case in this connection has been pending with the court. But the fresh move has been taken after a verdict of the International Crimes Tribunal reducing punishment of a Jamaat leader convicted of war crimes. Officials of the ministry said the amendment would pave the way to try the party.