BSS:
The investigation agency, which was reconstituted through a gazette notification on September 18, 2024, of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT), has filed probe report in a case lodged over Chankharpul massacre, where six innocents were gunned down during the July-August mass uprising.
“The investigation agency has filed the report on April 20. Now we will go through the report, scrutinize it and then file at the tribunal as a formal charge,” ICT Chief Prosecutor Muhammad Tajul Islam told newsmen at a press briefing in his office here today.
Shahriar Khan Anas, Mahdi Hasan Zunaid, Md Yakub, Md Rakib Hawlader, Md Ismamul Haque and Manik Miah were brutally killed in police firing in Chankharpul area during the mass uprising.
The investigation agency implicated eight people including former commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Habibur Rahman. Of the eight, Inspector Arshad, constables Md Suzon, Imaz Hossain Emon and Nasirul Islam have been arrested and are now behind the bars.
“The investigation agency prepared the 90-page probe report in six months and 13 days. Testimonies of 79 witnesses have been recorded, 19 video footages, 11 news paper reports, two audio files, 11 books or reports and six death certificates were attached with the report,” Tajul added.
ICT probe body files maiden report on Chankharpul massacre case
