The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Thursday issued warrants for the arrest of six people, including former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan, in a case filed over ‘Jahaj Bari’ killings in the capital's Kalyanpur area.
The three-member tribunal, led by its chairman Justice Md Golam Mortuza Majumder, passed the order after accepting the chargesheet in the case.
The tribunal fixed February 8 for the next hearing.
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Earlier in the day, the investigation agency of the International Crimes Tribunal-1 submitted the chargesheet against eight people in the case, said ICT prosecutor Gazi MH Tamim.
Former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, former IGP AKM Shahidul Haque, former DMP commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia and former SB chief Monirul Islam were among the accused in the case.
Of them, IGP AKM Shahidul Haque and DMP commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia were in jail in another case.
The charges of crimes against humanity were brought against the accused in connection with the killing of nine people at a house named ‘Jahaj Bari’ in Kalyanpur on July 25, 2016.
According to the prosecution, nine people were confined and later shot dead in the house in the name of an anti-militancy drive.
The case was filed with the International Crimes Tribunal accusing the then authorities of carrying out extrajudicial killings.
On March 24 last year, ICT-1 sent former IGP AKM Shahidul Haque, former DMP Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia, and former Deputy Commissioner of DMP’s Mirpur Division Mohammad Jasim Uddin Mollah to jail in connection with the case.
Earlier, Chief Prosecutor Mohammad Tajul Islam told journalists that the tribunal’s investigation agency found that the nine youths had been arrested from different parts of the country well before the incident.
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Some of them were allegedly held in Detective Branch custody for two to three months.
Investigators claim the victims were later brought together at the Kallyanpur house, where senior police officials arrived on the night of the incident under the pretext of a ‘block raid’.
After they were shot dead, the incident was publicly described as a successful militant killing operation, he said.