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Published : 09 May 2025, 08:57 PM
The International Crimes Tribunal’s (ICT) investigation agency is expected to file its report on alleged genocide charges against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday.
Chief Prosecutor Tajul Islam shared this update in a Facebook post on Friday.
“I hope the investigation agency of the International Crimes Tribunal will submit the July ‘genocide’ report against Sheikh Hasina to the chief prosecutor on Monday. After the report is filed, the formal trial process will begin by framing the formal charges,” he wrote.
Tajul also disclosed that a separate investigation report has already been submitted against senior police officers over the killings in Dhaka’s Chankharpul during the July movement.
“The formal charges in that case will be submitted this week, marking the official start of the ‘genocide’ trial,” he said.
In the same post, the chief prosecutor tagged the official Facebook pages of the newly-formed National Citizen Party (NCP) as well as those of BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami, AB Party, Gono Odhikar Parishad, and several other political groups.
In the case over the killing of six people in Chankharpul during the anti-discrimination movement, the tribunal's investigation agency filed a report on Apr 20 accusing former Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) commissioner Habibur Rahman and seven other members of police of “crimes against humanity”.
The interim government launched tribunal proceedings after terming the state crackdown on the student-led mass uprising as “genocide”.
The Chankharpul report was the first to emerge from that initiative.
Apart from Habibur, former DMP joint commissioner Sudip Kumar Chakraborty, former additional deputy commissioner Shah Alam Md Akhtarul Islam and assistant commissioner Md Imrul, former Shahbagh police inspector Arshad Hossain, constables Sujan, Imaz Hossain and Nasirul Islam have been named as accused in the case.
Four of them are currently absconding.
During a press briefing after the April submission, Tajul said the agency submitted the report within 195 days of the start of the investigation.
Drawing from the findings, he said the accused had killed six people following instructions provided by Habibur.
He said, “We have received the investigation report. The process of filing formal charges against the accused at the International Crimes Tribunal will begin from [Apr 21].”
Referring to Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, Tajul claimed they were also “implicated” in the Chankharpul killings. "Since the investigation of superior command responsibility is in progress against them, they have not been named as suspects in this case.”
“But the charge sheet contains the description of their role as the instruction provider and planners. Because Sheikh Hasina’s subordinates, members of law-enforcing agencies, and leaders and activists of the Awami League and the 14 parties implemented instructions at the field level on her direct order,” he said.
If the investigation report against the Awami League chief is submitted on Monday, it will pave the way for the formal launch of trial proceedings against her at the ICT.
