The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 is scheduled to pronounce its judgment on Monday in a case concerning crimes against humanity committed in Dhaka’s Chankharpul area on 5 August 2024, when six people were brutally killed.
The tribunal had initially set the verdict for 20 January, but the date was later postponed to 26 January as the judgment could not be prepared within the original timeframe.
The 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, former assistant commissioner of DMP’s Ramna zone Mohammad Imrul, former inspector Md Arshad Hossain, and constables Md Sujon, Imaj Hossain Emon, and Nasirul Islam.
The first four accused have yet to be arrested and are being tried in absentia.
The prosecution filed the formal charge against all eight accused on 25 May, marking the first formal charge submitted at the ICT in cases arising from the July–August mass uprising.
The six victims—Shahriar Khan Anas, Sheikh Mahdi Hasan Zunayed, Md Yakub, Md Rakib Hawlader, Md Ismamul Haque, and Manik Miah—were killed in Chankharpul on 5 August 2024.
The tribunal’s investigation agency submitted a 90-page probe report on 20 April 2025.
