ICT orders newspaper notice for Hasina, Kamal to appear by June 24

The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 on Monday ordered authorities concerned to publish notices on two national dailies, asking ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal to appear before it within seven days (June 24).

The former Prime Minister, her Home Minister Kamal and police chief Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun are accused in a crimes against humanity case filed over the monstrous crimes committed during the July-August mass uprising.

Earlier, the ICT-1 on June 1 took the formal charge, filed by the prosecution in the case, into cognizance and set today for passing further order in this connection. 

In line with the order, Chief Prosecutor Muhammad Tajul Islam today said, that the three accused, Sheikh Hasina and Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal are yet to be arrested and police learned from different sources that they are in India right now. 

The ICT chief prosecutor then pleaded for further direction from the tribunal in this connection.

The three-member ICT-1 led by Justice Md Golam Mortuza Mozumder asked authorities concerned to publish notices in two widely circulated national dailies, one Bengali and one English, asking the two fugitive accused to appear before it within seven days.

The court also set June 24 for passing further orders in this connection.

The prosecution in the formal charge brought five charges against ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and former Inspector General of Police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun.

The investigation agency of the ICT on May 12 filed its probe report on the crimes against humanity and mass killing case.