Overview
- Fifteen serving officers were produced from army custody before ICT-1 and ordered to a sub-jail inside Dhaka Cantonment by a three-judge bench led by Justice Md. Golam Mortuza Majumder.
- The accused denied the complaints and sought bail, with the court to take up formal applications at the next hearing reportedly set for November 5.
- The October 8 warrants also targeted deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and other former officials, and the tribunal ordered arrests of absconding accused.
- The cases allege enforced disappearances and torture at the TFI cell and DGFI’s Joint Interrogation Cell, carrying multiple charges of crimes against humanity.
- Prosecutors had warned the army to produce the officers or risk them being declared fugitives, as a government-designated cantonment building now serves as a makeshift prison.