The International Crimes Tribunal on Sunday issued arrest warrants against two police officers and five others for their alleged involvement in committing crimes against humanity in the capital鈥檚 Mohakhali, Rampura, and Uttara areas during the July-August mass uprising.
The two-member tribunal, led by its chairman Golam Mortuza Mozumder and member Mohammad Mohitul Haque Anam Chawdhury, passed the order.
The tribunal, however, withheld the identities of the accused at the prosecution鈥檚 request.
Prosecutor Gazi Monawar Hossain Tamim, in a brief message to journalists, said that former Uttara East police station officer-in-charge Mujibur Rahman was arrested at a place on the Dhaka University campus at about 3:00pm on Sunday.
Mujibur is one of the two police officers against whom the tribunal issued arrest warrants earlier in the day.
The former OC was later produced before the tribunal which ordered the jail authorities to keep him detained in connection with a case relating to crimes against humanity and genocide committed in Uttara during the mass uprising.
The tribunal also allowed the investigation agency to interrogate detained constable Mohammad Sujan Hossain for one day in connection with a case over the killing of seven people in the capital鈥檚 Chankharpul area during the uprising on August 5, 2024.
The orders were issued after hearings on four petitions moved by prosecutors Gazi Monawar Hossain Tamim and BM Sultan Mahmood.
Prosecutor Tamim told reporters that, since the tribunal鈥檚 reconstitution, arrest warrants were issued against 115 individuals in 18 cases.
Of them, 35 have been arrested and are currently in custody, he said.
