The Detective Branch of the police on Tuesday arrested Rangamati additional superintendent of police Ishtiaq Ahmed in a case of crimes against humanity committed during the student-led mass uprising in July and August in 2024.
Ishtiaq, posted as an additional deputy commissioner at the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police during the mass uprising, is elder of two sons of Justice Md Abu Ahmed Jamadar, a former chairman of the International Crimes Tribunal-1 and a former judge of the High Court Division of the Supreme Court.
The former ICT chairman鈥檚 son was produced before the ICT on Tuesday and the three-member tribunal led by Justice Golam Mortuza Mozumder ordered Ishtiaq鈥檚 detention in the case of Rampura killing in the capital during the mass uprising.
ICT spokesman Abdullah Al Noman in a press release on the day said that Ishtiaq was wanted in the Rampura murder case as the tribunal on February 9 issued a warrant for his arrest in the case.
Ishtiaq allegedly located students鈥� gatherings at various points in the capital using a drone and provided the information to the Rapid Action Battalion, other law enforcement agencies, and the leaders of the Awami League to facilitate the killings of student protesters.
Noman said that the investigation agency members with the help of the members of the law enforcement agencies arrested Ishtiaq at a location in Rangamati.
Rampura Police Station鈥檚 former assistant sub-inspector Chanchal Kumar has been detained in jail in the Rampura case.
He was accused of hanging a protesting student from a building rooftop in Rampura after shooting him.
The then Awami League regime constituted the ICT on March 25, 2010 to hold the trials of the individuals suspected to be involved in committing genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity during the country鈥檚 liberation war.
A second tribunal, the ICT-2, was constituted in 2012 as the number of war crimes cases increased. The ICT-2 became defunct in 2015.
The lone tribunal, the ICT-1, became inactive after the retirement of its chairman Justice Md Abu Ahmed Jamadar in June 2024.
After the fall of the Awami League regime amid a student-led mass uprising on August 5, 2024, the interim government reconstituted the tribunal on October 14, 2024, with Justice Md Golam Mortuza Mozumder as the tribunal chairman, for holding trials of the individuals, mostly Awami League leaders and members of the law enforcement agencies, involved in committing crimes against humanity during the mass uprising.
