A special Bangladeshi tribunal that sentenced an Opposition BNP lawmaker to death for genocide during the 1971 liberation war on Wednesday confirmed that a draft of its verdict was leaked as part of a “major conspiracy” against the court.
“This is a major conspiracy...The conspiracy was to make the tribunal controversial,” Justice Jahangir Hossain Selim, part of the three-judge International Crimes Tribunal, said in the courtroom before the start of proceedings in another case.
Court officials said a complaint was lodged with police and orders were issued to immediately launch an investigation into the scandal. Soon after the tribunal on Tuesday sentenced Bangladesh Nationalist Party MP Salauddin Quader Chowdhury to death, the lawmaker and his family alleged that the verdict had been leaked beforehand.