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DHAKA: Former Dhaka constabulary commissioner and 2 different ex-police officers were connected Monday sentenced to decease by Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) for "crimes against humanity" during the 2024 convulsive protests that led to past PM Sheikh Hasina's ouster. A lawsuit successful which decease punishment was handed down to Hasina and past location curate Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal successful Nov past year.They are accused of their relation successful the crackdown connected protesters nether the directions of the past Hasina-led Awami League govt. The 2024 'July uprising' saw Hasina - who ICT had said was the "mastermind and main architect" of the convulsive repression that killed hundreds of protesters - fly Bangladesh. Former Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) commissioner Habibur Rahman, erstwhile DMP associated commissioner Sudip Kumar Chakraborty and erstwhile further lawman commissioner Mohammad Akhtarul Islam aft their proceedings successful absentia were fixed decease punishment by a three-judge ICT sheet led by Justice Mohammad Golam Mortuza Mozumder.
"These 3 (convicts) had superior presumption implicit their subordinates and are liable for superior bid responsibility.
They are recovered blameworthy and hereby awarded a azygous condemnation of death," the ICT judgement said. ICT besides sentenced erstwhile Dhaka adjunct constabulary commissioner Mohammad Imrul - tried successful absentia - to six years successful prison, erstwhile inspector Arshad Hossain to 4 years and erstwhile constables Sujon Hossain, Imaj Hossain and Nasirul Islam to 3 years successful jail. ICT recovered them blameworthy of an incidental successful which six radical were killed successful constabulary firing.
