ICT allows quizzing former NTMC chief Maj Gen Ziaul

The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has allowed a plea of the prosecution to interrogate the former director general of the National Telecommunication Monitoring Centre (NTMC) sacked Major General Ziaul Ahsan by its probe body for a day over genocides and crimes against humanity committed while trying to quell the student-led July-August mass-uprising.

The three-judge panel of the ICT led by Justice Md Golam Mortuza Mozumder passed the order on Tuesday, allowing a plea filed and moved by Chief Prosecutor Muhammad Tajul Islam.

"There is no limit to allegations against Ziaul Ahsan. We have received numerous allegations against him. He has involvement with numerous murders and enforced disappearances. The ICT probe body has found much evidence against him. He is now behind bars and we need to interrogate him to know further in this regard," the chief prosecutor told newsmen later.

Advocate Muhammad Tajul Islam said he had pleaded to allow the probe agency to interrogate the accused for a day, which was accepted.