Tribunal orders newspaper notices for Hasina, 5 others to surrender in Kallyanpur Jahajbari case
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 also fixed 8 March for the next hearing.
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 (ICT-1) today (22 February) ordered the publication of newspaper notices directing six fugitive accused, including former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, to surrender in a case over the 2016 Kallyanpur Jahajbari raid in which nine people were shot dead.
The tribunal also fixed 8 March for the next hearing.
The two-member ICT-1 bench, led by Justice Md Golam Mortuza Mozumder, passed the order.
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Prosecutor Gazi MH Tamim conducted the hearing on behalf of the prosecution, assisted by prosecutors Saimum Reza Talukdar and Abdus Sattar Paloan.
The eight accused in the case were ordered to be produced before the tribunal today. As two of them are currently in jail, the court directed that newspaper notifications be published for the surrender of the remaining six.
The two in custody are former inspector general of police AKM Shahidul Haque and former commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Asaduzzaman Miah.
The other accused are former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal; former additional commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Sheikh Muhammad Maruf Hasan; former Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime chief Monirul Islam; former joint commissioner (Crime) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Krishna Pada Roy; and former joint commissioner (DB) Abdul Baten.
On 29 January, the Tribunal took cognisance of the formal charges submitted by the prosecution against the eight accused and issued arrest warrants.
According to the case, on the night of 25 July 2016, police conducted a raid on a house known as Jahajbari in the capital's Kalyanpur area under an operation named 'Operation Storm-26'.
It was alleged that the raid was staged and that the nine individuals killed, who were described as militants, had no links to militancy.
At the time, former IGP AKM Shahidul Haque visited the scene and stated that the deceased were members of the banned militant outfit Neo-Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (Neo-JMB).
