The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on Thursday sent former additional superintendent of police (Savar circle) Shahidul Islam to the jail in a case filed over genocide and crimes against humanity to suppress the anti-discrimination student movement.
The three-judge ICT panel led by Justice Md Golam Mortuza Mozumder passed the order responding to a plea for
keeping him behind bar in the genocide case.
ICT Chief Prosecutor Mohammad Tajul Islam filed the appeal with the tribunal providing information of the arrest of the former police officer.
Shahidul, who was arrested earlier, brought to the tribunal amid stringent security measures at 10 in the morning.
Prosecutor Abdulla Al Noman told BSS that Shahidul was arrested as he was an accused in a
case regarding the July-August genocide.
The tribunal earlier on October 27 issued arrest warrants against 17 former police officers including former Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) commissioner Habibur Rahman and asked the concerned authorities to produce them before the tribunal after their arrest by November 20 next.
