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Published : 18 Sep 2025, 03:38 PM
The International Crimes Tribunal has indicted five people, including the former Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner, in a crimes against humanity case involving the shooting of a young man clinging to the cornice of a building in Dhaka’s Rampura during the July Uprising, and the killing of two others.
A three-member bench of the International Crimes Tribunal 1, led by Justice Golam Mortuza Mozumder, framed the charges against the accused on Tuesday.
It also set Oct 16 for the opening statement from the prosecution.
The suspects are Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Habibur Rahman, additional deputy commissioner of Khilgaon Zone Md Rashedul Islam, former Rampura Police Station chief Md Mashiur Rahman, former sub-inspector Tariqul Islam Bhuiyan, and former assistant sub-inspector Chanchal Chandra Sarkar.
Of the five, only Chanchal has been arrested. The rest area absconding.
Lawyer Sarwar Jahan Nippon, representing the lone arrested suspect former assistant sub-inspector Chanchal and defence lawyer Md Amir Hossain, appointed by the state for the absconding accused, had petitioned for the acquittal of the suspects.
The tribunal scrapped their petitions and ordered the trial to proceed against all five suspects.
The investigation agency submitted its report on Jul 31 to the chief prosecutor’s office.
According to the case dossier, Amir Hossain, a hotel worker from Brahmanbaria, was heading to his aunt’s house in Rampura on Jul 19, 2024.
Spotting police and Border Guard Bangladesh vehicles along the Banasree-Meradia road, he fled onto the roof of a four-storey building under construction.
Police followed him, and as he clung to a cornice rod on the roof, officers allegedly opened fire.
He fell to the third floor, where bystanders rescued him and rushed him to a local hospital in Banasree.
Later that night, he was transferred to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where he underwent long-term treatment before returning home.
Two others were also shot dead in Rampura that same day, according to the case dossier.
