A complaint was on Monday lodged with the International Crimes Tribunal鈥檚 chief prosecutor accusing 18 individuals of alleged involvement in the enforced disappearance of Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Chowdhury Alam in 2010.
The accused people include officials of law enforcement agencies, leaders of the Awami League, and the leaders of two market committees in the capital鈥檚 Banga Bazar and Phulbaria areas.
The victim鈥檚 son Abu Sayed Chowdhury filed the complaint.
Sayed mentioned Awami League leaders Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya, Bahauddin Nasim and Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat, and retired major general Ziaul Ahsan as the main accused in abducting Chowdhury Alam.
The other accused are rear admiral (dismissed) M Sohail, who served as the legal and media wing director at the Rapid Action Battalion headquarters, RAB鈥檚 the then additional director Colonel (dismissed) Md Muzibur, former Sher-E-Bangla police station officer-in-charge Riazul Islam, the then RAB-2 deputy commander Major Ershad, Matikata Online Group owner Khan Md Akteruzzaman, Dhaka South City Corporation鈥檚 former councilors Farid Uddin Ratan and Nisar Uddin Ahmed Kazal, former AL lawmaker and Bangabazar Complex chief controller Afzal Hossain, Metropolitan Business Associate chairman Abdur Rahman Huzur and its general secretary Abdul Baset Master, Phulbaria Supermarket president Shahjahan Khan, Bangabazar Complex president Md Shahjahan, Bangabazar market association leader Mir Ali Mamun, and Phulbaria Super Market鈥檚 deputy director Ismail Hossain Bacchu.
The victim鈥檚 son stated that his father remained untraced since plainclothes picked him up from in front of Kalindi Apartment on Indira Road in the capital鈥檚 Farmgate area at about 7:30pm on June 25, 2010.
Chowdhury Alam is among the first victims of enforced disappearance during the 15-year Awami League regime that was ousted amid a mass uprising on August 5, 2024.