DHAKA, Aug 13, 2025 (BSS) - Three new prosecution witnesses (PWs) have
testified at International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 in a crimes against
humanity case filed over the killings of six innocent people in the city's
Chankharpul area on August 5, 2024.
Today Rahima Akter, mother of martyr Md Yakub and his uncle Shahid Ahammed
testified in the case. After that Md Mohibul Haque, elder brother of martyr
Md Ismamul Haque, submitted his deposition. The three witnesses demanded
justice over the death of their loved ones and pleaded for exemplary
punishment for all the accused including the then prime minister Sheikh
Hasina.
At the end of today's proceedings, by Justice Md Golam Mortuza Mozumder,
chairman of the three-member panel of the ICT-1, adjourned the hearing till
August 20.
Prosecutors Mizanul Islam took part in today's hearing.
Earlier on August 12, Shaikh Burhanuddin Post Graduate College teacher
Anjuara Yasmin testified as second prosecution witness (PW) and was later
cross-examined by the defence. Later, July Mass Uprising martyr Sheikh Mehedi
Hasan Junayed's father Sheikh Jamal Hasan testified as third prosecution
witness.
Earlier on August 11, Shahriar Khan Palash, father of martyr Shahriar Khan
Anas, testified as PW-1, narrating heart-wrenching incidents of August 5,
2024, when his son along with five other innocent people were brutally killed
by the law enforcers in the Chankharpul area.
Before the submission of his deposition, ICT Chief Prosecutor Muhammad Tajul
Islam placed opening statement in the case.
The first tribunal on July 14 framed charges against eight accused in a
crimes against humanity case filed over the killings of six innocent people
in the city's Chankharpul area on August 5, 2024.
The prosecution, led by Chief Prosecutor Muhammad Tajul Islam on July 3 had
argued for framing charges against the accused, while the defence counsels
moved their discharge petitions for their clients.
Advocate Saddam Hossain Ovy argued for accused Inspector Arshad, Barrister
Sifat Mahmud for constable Md Sujon, Advocate Shibli Sadekin for constable
Imaj Hossain Emon, Advocate Abul Hasan for constable Nasirul Islam and state-
appointed counsel Advocate Md Kutubuddin defended four fugitive accused at
the tribunal.
The ICT-1 on June 3 ordered authorities concerned to publish a notice in two
national dailies, asking the four fugitive accused to appear before it. The
four fugitive accused are former Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner
Habibur Rahman, former DMP Joint Commissioner Sudip Kumar Chakraborty, former
Additional Deputy Commissioner Shah Alam Mohammad Akhtarul Islam and former
Assistant Commissioner of DMP's Ramna Zone Mohammad Imrul.
The notice was published on the next day. The four fugitives, however,
remained absent, prompting the tribunal to appoint Advocate Md Kutubuddin as
the state's defence to defend the accused.
The prosecution on May 25 filed the formal charge against eight in the crimes
against humanity case lodged over the killings of six innocent people in the
city's Chankharpul area on August 5, 2024. It was the maiden formal charge
filed at the ICT in the cases lodged over the July-August mass uprising.
Shahriar Khan Anas, Sheikh Mahdi Hasan Zunayed, Md Yakub, Md Rakib Hawlader,
Md Ismamul Haque and Manik Miah were martyred in Chankharpul area on that day
(August 5).
The investigation agency of the tribunal filed the 90-page probe report on
April 20 last.