STAFF CORRESPONDENT

The prosecution yesterday brought charges against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and six former senior police officers over the killing of nine youths in what it described as a “staged anti-militant operation” at Kalyanpur’s Jahaj Building in 2016.

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 accepted the charges after taking the formal charges into cognisance and issued arrest warrants against six accused who remain absconding.

Two of the accused -- former inspector general of police AKM Shahidul Hoque and former Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia -- are already in custody.

The four other cops accused are former DMP additional commissioner Sheikh Mohammad Maruf Hasan; former CTTC chief who later became the SB chief Md Monirul Islam; then DMP joint commissioners Krishna Pada Roy and Mohammad Abdul Baten, who were later promoted to additional IGP and deputy inspector general respectively.

The case dates back to an operation on July 26, 2016 at a fourth-floor flat of the six-storey Jahaj Building in Kalyanpur, following the Holey Artisan Bakery attack

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