Dhaka’s ex-police chief sentenced to death by Bangladesh tribunal
Former Dhaka police commissioner and two other police officers were on Monday sentenced to death by a special Bangladesh tribunal for their alleged role during the 2024 violent street protests that led to then prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s ouster.
A three-judge panel of Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT-BD), led by Justice Mohammad Golam Mortuza Mozumder, handed down the sentence to former Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) commissioner Habibur Rahman, former DMP joint commissioner Sudip Kumar Chakraborty and additional deputy commissioner Mohammad Akhtarul Islam after their trial in absentia.
This is the second verdict delivered by the restructured ICT-BD which earlier handed down the death penalty to deposed premier Hasina and then home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal.”These three (convicts) 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 also sentenced Dhaka’s assistant police commissioner Mohammad Imrul to six years, inspector Arshad Hossain to four years and three constables Sujon Hossain, Imaj Hossain and Nasirul Islam to three-year prison terms.
The three former police officers who received the capital punishment and assistant commissioner Imrul were tried in absentia as the tribunal earlier declared them as fugitives while the others faced the trial in person. Bangladesh’s army personnel stand guard at the International Crimes Tribunals premises in Dhaka
