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DHAKA, May 20, 2026 (BSS) - The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 today 
framed charges in a crimes against humanity case against former lawmaker Abul 
Hasnat Abdullah and three others filed over the extrajudicial killings of two 
leaders of Chhatra Dal and JASAS in Barishal.

The second tribunal passed the order today, setting June 17 for prosecution's 
opening statement and starting recording the deposition of the witnesses.

The other accused in the case are former superintendent of police AKM 
Ehsanullah, former assistant sub-inspectors (ASIs) Md Mahabul Islam and Md 
Jasim Uddin. Of the four [including Abdullah], Mahabul and Jasim have been 
arrested and are in jail now.

According to the case documents, Abul Hasnat Abdullah allegedly planned and 
conspired to kill Tipu Hawlader, then joint general secretary of Agailjhara 
upazila unit of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, and Kabir Molla, organising 
secretary of JASAS of the same upazila, after failing to politically counter 
them.

The prosecution alleged that Hasnat Abdullah, along with Ehsanullah, 
instructed subordinate police members to shoot dead Tipu Hawlader and Kabir 
Molla on the west side of the big bridge on the Agailjhara Bypass road of the 
Gouranadi-Gopalganj highway on the night of February 21, 2015. Tipu and Kabir 
were killed in this way.