Ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina -File Photo

DHAKA, June 17, 2025 (BSS) - The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 today published a notice in two national dailies, asking ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal to surrender.

The notice, signed by ICT Registrar ASM Ruhul Amin, was published in daily Amar Desh and daily New Age, ordering Hasina and Kamal to surrender before the tribunal on June 24.

"...as per rules 31 of the International Crimes (Tribunal-1) Rules of Procedure 2010 (Amendment), 2025, they are hereby ordered to surrender at this tribunal on June 24, 2025. Otherwise, trial will be held in their absence as per section 10A of the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act, 1973," the notice said.

The three-member ICT-1 led by Justice Md Golam Mortuza Mozumder on June 16 ordered the authorities concerned to publish notices on two national dailies, one in Bangla and another in English, asking the two fugitive convicts to give up before the court.

The ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former home minister Kamal and former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun are accused in the crimes against humanity case filed over the monstrous crimes committed during the July-August mass uprising.

Earlier, the ICT-1 on June 1 took the formal charge, filed by the prosecution in the case, into cognizance and had set June 16 for passing further order in this connection. 

In line with that order, Chief Prosecutor Muhammad Tajul Islam on June 16 said, of the three accused, Sheikh Hasina and Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal are yet to be arrested and police learned from different sources that they are in India right now. 

The ICT chief prosecutor then pleaded for further direction from the tribunal in this connection. The tribunal after that asked authorities concerned to publish notices in two widely circulated national dailies, asking the two fugitive accused to appear before it within seven days.

The court had also set June 24 for passing further order in this connection.

The prosecution in the formal charge brought five charges against ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and former Inspector General of Police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun.

The investigation agency of the ICT on May 12 filed its probe report in the crimes against humanity and mass killing case.