The International Crimes Tribunal鈥檚 investigation agency has completed its probe into crimes against humanity committed during the July-August uprising at the Chankharpool area in the capital.
Sources at the Office of the Chief Prosecutor said that eight law enforcement officers, including former Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Habibur Rahman, have been accused in the case.
Four of the accused officers in the case are now arrested and four others including Habibur are still in hiding.
Chief prosecutor Mohammad Tajul Islam confirmed that the prosecution had received an unofficial copy of the probe report.
鈥榃e hope to formally submit charges in the Chankharpool case to the tribunal once it resumes on April 6 after the Eid vacation,鈥� he said.
According to the prosecution, Armed Police Battalion鈥檚 Md Sujan Hossain was directly responsible for shooting at protesters and bystanders during the unrest, which left seven people dead near Borhanuddin College at Chankharpool.
Witness accounts and video evidence showed Sujan firing at the crowd from various positions.
The constables shot at the protesters from the order of their superior officers, the prosecution said.
Meanwhile, the three-judge tribunal, chaired by Justice Golam Motuza Mozumder, has set April 28 for submitting the probe report in the Rampura crimes against humanity case.
When asked about reports that 22 police officers had gone into hiding or fled the country after allegedly receiving secret information about arrest warrants issued by the tribunal at different times, chief prosecutor Tajul Islam expressed his concern about the leaking of the information.
鈥楢 vested quarter, either in the tribunal or in the prosecution, may have leaked this information. We are taking the matter seriously and investigating it. Anyone found responsible will face exemplary punishment,鈥� he said.
鈥楾he warrant order was leaked almost immediately after it was issued, and we suspect that it was leaked from the tribunal building,鈥� he said.
