Sukharanjan Bali. Photo : Collected

DHAKA, July 3, 2026 (BSS) - A court today ordered retired Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Md. Fazlur Rahman to be sent to jail in a case over the enforced disappearance of Sukharanjan Bali, a defence witness for Allama Delawar Hossain Sayeedi before the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT).

Police produced Fazlur before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court in Dhaka under Rule 34(1) of the International Crimes Tribunal Rules of Procedure today. 

The investigation officer of Complaint (Regi-188), Helalul Islam, appealed that the accused be kept in custody until the investigation into the case over the alleged enforced disappearance of Sukharanjan Bali is completed. 

After the hearing, Metropolitan Magistrate Mahbub Alam ordered that Fazlur be sent to jail.

Fazlur was arrested from his residence in the capital on Thursday night (July 2).

According to the prosecution's application seeking his detention, at around 9:30am on 5 November 2012, Sukharanjan Bali, accompanied by his lawyer, arrived by car in front of the main gate of the International Crimes Tribunal at the Old High Court Building. As soon as the vehicle stopped, unidentified personnel allegedly dragged him out of the car and forcibly took him away in a white double-cabin vehicle.

The application further said that Bali was kept blindfolded in a dark detention facility, where he was physically tortured for two months. 

It further said he was later taken across the border into India and remained detained at Dum Dum Central Correctional Home for five years. After reports of his detention appeared in the Indian media, his son, Apurba Bali, travelled to India and secured his release on bail.

The application also stated that the investigation and eyewitness testimony revealed that on the day of the incident, the accused, Md. Fazlur Rahman, along with other officers and personnel of the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), arrived in two double-cabin vehicles and forcibly took Sukharanjan Bali from in front of the International Crimes Tribunal to the DB office. 

After being held there, he was allegedly sent across the border into India.

It further said that sufficient witness testimony and evidence had been found linking the accused to the incident and sought his detention in jail until completion of the investigation.