Death penalty to three police officers. (symbolic)
Digital Desk, New Delhi. Three senior officials, including the former Dhaka Police Commissioner, have been sentenced to death in a case related to the violent student movement that took place in Bangladesh during July-August, 2024. This decision has come in the second case of crime against humanity. Due to this movement, the Awami League government led by Sheikh Hasina was ousted on August 5, 2024. Since then Hasina has been living in India.
The International Crime Tribunal of Bangladesh on Monday gave its verdict in the Chankharpul massacre case of the capital Dhaka. A three-member committee headed by Justice Mohammad Ghulam Murtaza Majumdar awarded death sentence to former Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Habibur Rahman, former Joint Commissioner Sudip Kumar Chakraborty and former Additional Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Akhtarul Islam. This hearing took place in the absence of these former officers.
This is the second verdict in crimes against humanity cases related to the July-August movement. In the first case, in November last year, 78-year-old Hasina and former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal were sentenced to death. On August 5, 2024, the day of the fall of Hasina government, there was firing on protesting students and civilians in Chankharpul area, in which six people were killed. A total of eight then police officers were accused in this case, out of which four are absconding.
ICT held all of them guilty in this case. Others sentenced are the then assistant commissioner of Dhaka Mohammad Imrul, inspector Arshad Hussain and three constables. Imrul has been sentenced to six years, Hussain to four years and the constables to three years each. Imrul is also absconding.
(With inputs from news agency ANI)
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