The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 on Sunday ordered the authorities to publish notices in two national dailies asking six fugitive accused—including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina—to surrender in a case over the alleged staged raid at Jahajbari in 2016 that left nine people dead.
The two-member tribunal, headed by Justice Golam Murtaza Mazumder, passed the order and adjourned the hearing until March 8.
Earlier, on January 29, the tribunal had issued arrest warrants against the six fugitives: Sheikh Hasina, Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, Sheikh Muhammad Maruf Hasan, Monirul Islam, Krishna Podo Roy and Abdul Baten. The order followed the tribunal’s acceptance of formal charges filed against eight individuals. The ICT prosecution submitted the charges to the registrar’s office on January 29.
On March 24, 2025, ICT-1 showed former Inspector General of Police AKM Shahidul Haque and former Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Asaduzzaman Miah arrested in the case.
According to the prosecution, members of different units of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) and the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) carried out a raid at a house known locally as “Jahajbari” in the capital’s Kalyanpur area on July 26, 2016.
Allegations later emerged that the operation was staged and that the nine individuals killed — labelled as militants — had no links to militancy. It was further alleged that they had been held in police custody for an extended period before being shot at close range.
Following the incident, then IGP AKM Shahidul Haque visited the scene and stated that the deceased were members of the banned militant outfit Neo-Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (Neo-JMB)
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