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DHAKA, April 9, 2025 (BSS) - The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) today showed arrested four individuals including two former policemen and sent them to jail in a crimes against humanity case lodged over Abu Sayed murder in Rangpur during the July-August mass uprising.
The three-member tribunal, led by Justice Md Golam Mortuza Mozumder passed the order, allowing a plea of the prosecution.
The four accused are former sub-inspector of police Amir Hossain, former constable Sujan Chandra Roy, former proctor of Begum Rokeya University Shariful Islam and Imran Chowdhury Akash, the general secretary of the banned Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) BRU wing.
Earlier, the tribunal on March 2 had set today to produce the four accused before it.
Chief Prosecutor Muhammad Tajul Islam said earlier that before the killing of Abu Sayed, then proctor Shariful and BCL members had attacked the university students and flashed out them from the campus. At one point, two policemen shot and killed Abu Sayed at close range. Evidence indicates that Shariful was directly involved in the incident.
Abu Sayed's family filed a complaint on January 13, naming 25 individuals in connection with his death.
