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Rahman and Nirmol Kumar Das; ASIs Biswajit Saha and Kamrul Hasan; and Saiful’s aide Rony Bhuiyan -- are absconding.

The prosecution said 29 people were killed in Ashulia during the uprising, but the charges in this case are based on the killing of one protester on August 4 last year and six others the next day. The second incident involved five bodies and one injured person being set on fire in a police van.

Prosecutor Mizanul Islam told the court that the investigation initially found former MP Saiful Islam, former DIG Nurul Islam, then Dhaka SP Asaduzzaman, additional SPs Kafi and Shahidul, former OC AFM Sayed, and inspectors Masudur Rahman and Nirmol Kumar Das planned and supervised the crimes as part of a “joint criminal enterprise”.

He said they directed their subordinates to open fire on unarmed demonstrators in the Ashulia area.