July uprising: 3 cops sent to jail for 'crimes against humanity'
Of the arrestees, AC Tanjil is an accused in the college student Imam Hossain Taim murder case
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on Monday (20 January) sent Assistant Commissioner (AC) of Police Tanjil Ahmed and two constables for their suspected involvement 'in crimes against humanity' during the July uprising.
A three-member bench led by ICT Chairman Md Golam Mortuza Majumdar passed the order after hearing separate petitions, said the court's Prosecutor BM Sultan Mahmud.
Of the arrestees, AC Tanjil is an accused in the college student Imam Hossain Taim murder case.
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Taim was shot dead during the July-August uprising in Jatrabari's Kajla area on July 20 last year.
Later, the victim's mother Parvin Aktar, wife of police inspector Md Joynal Hossain Bhuiyan who was posted at Rajarbagh Police Lines during the movement, filed a murder case against five police personnel including Wari division's former deputy commissioner Mohammad Iabal Hossain.
Constable Akram Hossaina is an accused in a murder case filed over the killing of college student Hridoy in Gazipur while another constable Hossain Ali is also facing a murder case filed in Dhaka's Uttara.
Earlier, the ICT ordered the authorities concerned to produce the trio accused in the respective cases.
The accused have been in jail since the arrests in the murder cases.
