Staff Reporter:
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) yesterday showed former Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Hauque, former Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Asaduzzaman Miah and the then Assistant Commissioner (AC) of DMP’s Mirpur Zone Jasim Uddin Mollah arrested in a case lodged over alleged staged raid of law enforcers, where nine people were gunned down.
“The three-member tribunal led by Justice Md Golam Mortuza Mozumder passed the order and sent them to jail after allowing a plea of the prosecution,” prosecutor BM Sultan Mahmud told .
Chief Prosecutor Muhammad Tajul Islam, prosecutors– Abdus Subhan Tarafder, BM Sultan Mahmud, Gazi MH Tamim, Shahidul Islam, Faruk Ahammed and Moinul Karim– were present at the courtroom during the hearing.
Different units of the DMP and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) conducted the raid on the house known as “Jahajbari” for its ship-like design on July 26, 2016. It was alleged that the whole raid was staged and the people killed being labeled as militants, had no connection with militancy, were in police custody for long and gunned down from close range.
The then IGP AKM Shahidul Hauque later went to the scene and said the dead people were members of banned militant outfit Neo-Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh or Neo-JMB.
