The police have arrested Shahriar Kabir, the president of the advisory board of the Khatak-Dalal Nirmul Committee of 1971. He was arrested from Banani’s house in the capital on Monday night.
Tejgaon Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Md. Mubarak Hossain confirmed the arrest and said that he was arrested in the case against Shahriar Kabir. He will be produced in court on Tuesday.
Shahriar Kabir’s name is on the list of accused in the application made to the investigative body of the International Criminal Tribunal in connection with the mass killing and disappearance of bodies in Shapla Chattar of the capital in 2013.
After the fall of the Awami League government, the application made to the investigation agency of the International Criminal Tribunal on August 20 was made by the Joint Secretary General of Hefazte Islam Bangladesh, Mufti Harun Izhar. He is former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former minister Obaidul Quader, Rashed Khan Menon, former mayor and member of parliament Sheikh Fazle Noor Tapas, former minister Hasan Mahmud, former member of parliament Haji Salim, former adviser Salman F Rahman, former member of parliament Shamim Osman, former adviser Tariq Ahmed Siddiqui, former IGP AKM Shahidul Haque and Benazir Ahmed, former Additional Director General of RAB Ziaul Ahsan, former DB chief Haroon Or Rashid, former police officer Biplab Kumar, Khatak Dalal Nirmul Committee Advisory Council President Shahriar Kabir, members Muntasir Mamun and Turin Afroz, Gana Jagran Manch Spokesperson Imran H Sarkar, Ekatar TV MD Mozammel Haque Babu, Saham TV’s Ahmed Zobair, AB News’ Subhash Singh Roy, Former Prime Minister’s Press Secretary and Daily Our New Times Naeemul Islam Khan, BGB Ex-DG and Ex-Army Chief Aziz Ahmed, Intelligence Agency NSI Ex- DG M Manzoor Ahmed has included names of anonymous ministers, state ministers, parliamentarians and some BGB, RAB, policemen and policy makers of the then electronic and print media.
In the application, May 5 and 6, 2013 as the date of the incident and various places in the country including Shapla Chatwar area of Motijheel, Dhaka, Chittagong, Narayanganj, Comilla have been mentioned.
According to the nature of the crime, with the order and plan of accused No. 1 to 24 to completely or partially eliminate the activists of Hefazat-e-Islam, the other accused black-out, stopped and controlled the broadcast of TV channels in the city, killed them by indiscriminate firing with firearms, carried out genocide by hiding the bodies and committed crimes against humanity. .