Dhaka, May 25 -- The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has issued an arrest warrant against former Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) commissioner Habibur Rahman in a case of crimes against humanity related to the killing of six people in Dhaka's Chankharpul during the July Uprising.

On Sunday, a three-member bench of the tribunal, headed by Justice Md Golam Mortuza Mozumdar, issued the order after accepting the charges submitted by the prosecution against Habibur and seven other policemen.

This is the first time the ICT has taken cognisance of a case since the interim government reconstituted it to prosecute the Awami League government's violent crackdown on student-led protests as crimes against humanity, reports bdnews24.com.

If the ...