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The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday framed charges against former Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) commissioner Habibur Rahman and seven other ex-police officials in a crimes against humanity case filed over the killing of six people in the capital’s Chankharpool area on August 5 last year.

The tribunal then set August 10 and August 11 for the opening statements of the prosecution and recording of witness depositions.

The other charges against the accused are murder, command responsibility, abetment, incitement, facilitation, complicity, and conspiracy.

This is the second time any accused have been charged at the ICT for the atrocities committed across the country during last year’s mass uprising, which, according to a UN report, left 1,400 dead and over 25,000 wounded.

On July 10, the ICT-1 framed charges against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her two top aides in another case.

Justice Md Shofiul Alam Mahmood read out the charges as instructed by the tribunal chair, Justice Golam Mortuza Mozumder, in a packed courtroom with four accused in the dock. The remaining four are absconding.

The absconding are former DMP chief Habibur Rahman, former DMP joint commissioner Sudip Kumar Chakraborty, former additional deputy commissioner (Ramna zone) Shah Alam Mohammad Akhtarul Islam, and former assistant commissioner (Ramna zone) Mohammad Imrul.

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