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ICT sets January 20 to deliver verdict
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Wednesday set January 20 to deliver the verdict in the crimes against humanity case over the killing of six protesters at Chankharpool during the July 2024 mass uprising...
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CHANKHARPOOL KILLINGS
ICT sets January 20 to deliver verdict
Staff Correspondent 25 December, 2025, 00:14
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Wednesday set January 20 to deliver the verdict in the crimes against humanity case over the killing of six protesters at Chankharpool during the July 2024 mass uprising.
The case is against former DMP commissioner Habibur Rahman, four senior police officers, and three constables.
The seven other accused include former DMP joint commissioner Sudip Kumar Chakraborty, former Ramna assistant deputy commissioner Shah Alam Md Akhterul Islam, former Ramna assistant commissioner Mohammad Imrul, Shahbagh police station inspector (operations) Ashrad Hossain, and suspended constables Sujan Hossain, Imaz Hossain Imon, and Nasirul Islam.
Of them, Ashrad, and suspended constables Sujan Hossain, Imaz Hossain Imon, and Nasirul Islam are in jail.
The remaining four are still in hiding and were tried in absentia.
The three-judge tribunal, chaired by Justice Md Golam Mortuza Mozumder, fixed the date after completing closing arguments.
The prosecution sought the death penalty for all eight accused.
The defence lawyers sought their clients’ acquittal, arguing that the accused had no command responsibility and acted under orders.
This will be the second verdict among the 13 July uprising cases pending before the two tribunals for trials.
Although deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan and detained former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun were named as conspirators in the Chankharpool killings, they were not included in this case because they are already accused in a separate case over superior command responsibility for the July incidents. On November 17, Hasina and Asaduzzaman were tried in absentia and sentenced to death, while Mamun, who became a state witness, was jailed for five years.
According to the charge sheet, senior police officials allegedly ordered, abetted, and facilitated the shootings, while constables carried out the firing that left six protesters dead on August 5, 2024 when Sheikh Hasina fled the country amid student-led mass uprising.
The victims of the August 5 shooting are Shahriar Khan Anas, a class X student who left behind a heartbreaking letter to his mother, Sheikh Mahadi Hasan Zunayed who is also known as Mostakin, Mohammad Yakub, Md Rakib Hawlader, Mohammad Ismail Haque, and Manik Mia, also known as Saharik Chowdhury.
Anas, the very young student, left his Gandaria residence that morning after writing, ‘I cannot stay at home while people from all walks of life have joined the July uprising,’ according to the case.
26 prosecution witnesses, including Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain, recently resigned adviser for the ministry of local government, rural development and cooperatives, who is also an organiser of the mass uprising, testified in the tribunal during the trial.
Video evidence was also submitted during the trial.
The prosecution alleged that the police failed to prevent attacks on protesters and, in some instances, facilitated them.
ICT sets January 20 to deliver verdict
Staff Correspondent 25 December, 2025, 00:14
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Wednesday set January 20 to deliver the verdict in the crimes against humanity case over the killing of six protesters at Chankharpool during the July 2024 mass uprising.
The case is against former DMP commissioner Habibur Rahman, four senior police officers, and three constables.
The seven other accused include former DMP joint commissioner Sudip Kumar Chakraborty, former Ramna assistant deputy commissioner Shah Alam Md Akhterul Islam, former Ramna assistant commissioner Mohammad Imrul, Shahbagh police station inspector (operations) Ashrad Hossain, and suspended constables Sujan Hossain, Imaz Hossain Imon, and Nasirul Islam.
Of them, Ashrad, and suspended constables Sujan Hossain, Imaz Hossain Imon, and Nasirul Islam are in jail.
The remaining four are still in hiding and were tried in absentia.
The three-judge tribunal, chaired by Justice Md Golam Mortuza Mozumder, fixed the date after completing closing arguments.
The prosecution sought the death penalty for all eight accused.
The defence lawyers sought their clients’ acquittal, arguing that the accused had no command responsibility and acted under orders.
This will be the second verdict among the 13 July uprising cases pending before the two tribunals for trials.
Although deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan and detained former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun were named as conspirators in the Chankharpool killings, they were not included in this case because they are already accused in a separate case over superior command responsibility for the July incidents. On November 17, Hasina and Asaduzzaman were tried in absentia and sentenced to death, while Mamun, who became a state witness, was jailed for five years.
According to the charge sheet, senior police officials allegedly ordered, abetted, and facilitated the shootings, while constables carried out the firing that left six protesters dead on August 5, 2024 when Sheikh Hasina fled the country amid student-led mass uprising.
The victims of the August 5 shooting are Shahriar Khan Anas, a class X student who left behind a heartbreaking letter to his mother, Sheikh Mahadi Hasan Zunayed who is also known as Mostakin, Mohammad Yakub, Md Rakib Hawlader, Mohammad Ismail Haque, and Manik Mia, also known as Saharik Chowdhury.
Anas, the very young student, left his Gandaria residence that morning after writing, ‘I cannot stay at home while people from all walks of life have joined the July uprising,’ according to the case.
26 prosecution witnesses, including Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain, recently resigned adviser for the ministry of local government, rural development and cooperatives, who is also an organiser of the mass uprising, testified in the tribunal during the trial.
Video evidence was also submitted during the trial.
The prosecution alleged that the police failed to prevent attacks on protesters and, in some instances, facilitated them.
