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[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.newagebd.net/post/country/260800/first-formal-charge-in-ict-after-eid[/URL]First formal charge in ICT after EidStaff Correspondent 23 March, 2025, 23:41[ATTACH=full]15880[/ATTACH]Probe into Ashulia six murders endsThe Office of the Chief Prosecutor is set to file the first-ever formal charge with the International Crimes Tribunal after the Eid vacation in a case of crimes against humanity linked to the student-led mass uprising in July and August in 2024.The case alleged that the members of the law enforcement agencies and the associates of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina committed crimes against humanity and genocide by killing six people in Ashulia, on the outskirts of Dhaka.The investigation agency has recently submitted its draft report on the case to the chief prosecutor’s office.The formal charge is expected to be filed after the ongoing Eid vacation, chief prosecutor Mohammad Tajul Islam told reporters at a press briefing on Sunday.‘We are scrutinising the report. We will submit the formal charges against the accused to the International Crimes Tribunal for trial after completing the scrutiny,’ he said.Tajul, however, did not disclose the names of the accused to be charged in the case.He said that the investigation agency was in the final stages of reviewing at least three or four other cases.He expected that they would get the probe reports in those cases after the Eid vacation.‘One of these cases accuses [deposed prime minister] Sheikh Hasina,’ Tajul added.Prosecutor Gazi Monwar Hossain Tamim told New Age that the draft investigation report in the case dropped the genocide charge but retained charges of crimes against humanity.The chief prosecutor’s office has the authority to reject or amend the investigation report, or return the report for further investigation before submitting formal charges to the tribunal for trial, he noted.Currently, several former officials of the law enforcement agencies, including former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun, former Dhaka district additional superintendent of police Abdullahhil Kafi, and former police inspector Arafat Hossain, who are now in jail are facing charges of crimes against humanity committed in Savar and Ashulia during the July-August uprising.Former Awami League lawmaker and Ashulia unit AL general secretary Muhammad Saiful Islam faces a warrant of arrest in the same case.Two cases of genocide and crimes against humanity were filed in September 2024 against Hasina and several of her key allies, including former cabinet members, party leaders, and senior police officials.The cases center on the killing of six individuals in police firing at Ashulia on August 5, 2024.One case was filed by Rizwanul Islam, who accused Hasina and 29 others of orchestrating the deaths of five people, including his brother during the Ashulia incident that followed the fall of Hasina-led Awami League regime.The second case, lodged by Shahina Begum, holds Hasina and 39 others responsible for the killing of her son, Sazzad Hossain, who was among those celebrating the fall of the AL regime.The other accused include ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s former adviser Salman F Rahman, former ministers Obaidul Quader and Asaduzzaman Khan, former IGP Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun, former Dhaka district superintendent of police Maruf Hossain, Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s former additional deputy commissioner Abdullah Al Kafi, Beximco security chief and retired major Arif, and local Awami League leaders and police officials in Ashulia.The victims’ families claimed that the killings were premeditated and carried out by on-duty police officers and local ruling party leaders on orders from Hasina, her cabinet members, and senior officials of the law enforcement agencies.They alleged that the victims were abducted, and killed, and their bodies were either buried or dumped from police vehicles in front of the Ashulia police station in an attempt to conceal the crimes they had committed.
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First formal charge in ICT after Eid
Staff Correspondent 23 March, 2025, 23:41
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Probe into Ashulia six murders ends
The Office of the Chief Prosecutor is set to file the first-ever formal charge with the International Crimes Tribunal after the Eid vacation in a case of crimes against humanity linked to the student-led mass uprising in July and August in 2024.
The case alleged that the members of the law enforcement agencies and the associates of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina committed crimes against humanity and genocide by killing six people in Ashulia, on the outskirts of Dhaka.
The investigation agency has recently submitted its draft report on the case to the chief prosecutor’s office.
The formal charge is expected to be filed after the ongoing Eid vacation, chief prosecutor Mohammad Tajul Islam told reporters at a press briefing on Sunday.
‘We are scrutinising the report. We will submit the formal charges against the accused to the International Crimes Tribunal for trial after completing the scrutiny,’ he said.
Tajul, however, did not disclose the names of the accused to be charged in the case.
He said that the investigation agency was in the final stages of reviewing at least three or four other cases.
He expected that they would get the probe reports in those cases after the Eid vacation.
‘One of these cases accuses [deposed prime minister] Sheikh Hasina,’ Tajul added.
Prosecutor Gazi Monwar Hossain Tamim told New Age that the draft investigation report in the case dropped the genocide charge but retained charges of crimes against humanity.
The chief prosecutor’s office has the authority to reject or amend the investigation report, or return the report for further investigation before submitting formal charges to the tribunal for trial, he noted.
Currently, several former officials of the law enforcement agencies, including former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun, former Dhaka district additional superintendent of police Abdullahhil Kafi, and former police inspector Arafat Hossain, who are now in jail are facing charges of crimes against humanity committed in Savar and Ashulia during the July-August uprising.
Former Awami League lawmaker and Ashulia unit AL general secretary Muhammad Saiful Islam faces a warrant of arrest in the same case.
Two cases of genocide and crimes against humanity were filed in September 2024 against Hasina and several of her key allies, including former cabinet members, party leaders, and senior police officials.
The cases center on the killing of six individuals in police firing at Ashulia on August 5, 2024.
One case was filed by Rizwanul Islam, who accused Hasina and 29 others of orchestrating the deaths of five people, including his brother during the Ashulia incident that followed the fall of Hasina-led Awami League regime.
The second case, lodged by Shahina Begum, holds Hasina and 39 others responsible for the killing of her son, Sazzad Hossain, who was among those celebrating the fall of the AL regime.
The other accused include ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s former adviser Salman F Rahman, former ministers Obaidul Quader and Asaduzzaman Khan, former IGP Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun, former Dhaka district superintendent of police Maruf Hossain, Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s former additional deputy commissioner Abdullah Al Kafi, Beximco security chief and retired major Arif, and local Awami League leaders and police officials in Ashulia.
The victims’ families claimed that the killings were premeditated and carried out by on-duty police officers and local ruling party leaders on orders from Hasina, her cabinet members, and senior officials of the law enforcement agencies.
They alleged that the victims were abducted, and killed, and their bodies were either buried or dumped from police vehicles in front of the Ashulia police station in an attempt to conceal the crimes they had committed.
