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  21 Apr 2025, 16:09
Update : 21 Apr 2025, 17:56

ICT probe body files maiden report on Chankharpul massacre case

Massive clashes broke out in Chankharpul during the anti-discrimination movement. File photo

DHAKA, April 21, 2025 (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.