Ex-DMP chief Habibur, 2 others sentenced to death

The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 on Monday convicted and sentenced three people, including former Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Habibur Rahman, in a case over crimes against humanity committed in the capital's Chankharpul area, where six people were killed on August 5, 2024.

The other death sentence recipients are former DMP joint commissioner Sudip Kumar Chakrabarti, and Shah Alam Md Akhtarul Islam, a former additional deputy commissioner of the Ramna zone.

The tribunal also ordered confiscation of the properties of the three condemned convicts. All three, along with another convict, are still at large.

The three-member tribunal, headed by Justice Golam Mortuza Mozumder, pronounced the judgment at 12:35 pm in a crowded courtroom.

"These three had superior status over their subordinates and are liable for superior command responsibility. They are found guilty and hereby awarded a single sentence of death," the judgment said.

The tribunal sentenced former assistant commissioner of DMP's Ramna Zone Mohammad Imrul to six years' imprisonment. Imrul is yet to be arrested and was tried in absentia. 

The ICT-1 also sentenced former inspector Md Arshad Hossain to four years' imprisonment, and former constables Md Sujon, Imaj Hossain Emon and Nasirul Islam to three years' imprisonment each.