DHAKA, April 28, 2025 (BSS) - The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) today set May 25 for submitting probe report in a genocide and crimes against humanity case lodged over the killing of six youths during the July-August mass uprising and subsequently torching their bodies to conceal the evidence.

The three-member tribunal led by Justice Md Golam Mortuza Mozumder passed the order, allowing a time plea of the prosecution.

Prosecutor Mizanul Islam moved the plea before the court, while prosecutors BM Sultan Mahmud and Faruk Ahammed were present during the hearing.

"We have identified a new video of a torching police van in Ashulia. The matter of how the killings took place there came before us in a new way. So we need a little more time to complete the probe and pleaded for one more month in this connection," Prosecutor Mizanul Islam said.

The ICT on April 15 sent former additional superintendent of police (crimes and ops) Md Abdullahil Kafi, former additional superintendent of police (Savar circle) Md Shahidul Islam and former detective branch (DB) inspector Md Arafat Hossain to jail in the case.

According to the prosecution, police members in Ashulia on August 5, 2024, allegedly shot and killed six youths and put their bodies into a police van. The van was then set ablaze in an attempt to make it appear as though the protesters had torched the vehicle, resulting in the deaths.

"Tragically, one of the victims was still alive when the fire was set. Police poured petrol on the van and burned him alive," Chief Prosecutor Tajul Islam told newsmen earlier.