An activist of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Sunday filed a complaint with the office of the International Crimes Tribunal’s chief prosecutor accusing deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 50 others of their involvement in the abduction and enforced disappearance of him and several of his associates.

Complaint Mohammad Ali of Nalchity in Jhalakathi is a businessman and owns an apparel factory, Sujan Apparel, in Gazipur.


He filed the complaint alleging that he was abducted on April 25, 2019 and was kept in secret detention at the Rapid Action Battalion’s Aynaghar facility for more than five years.

He was released on August 6, 2024, a day after the ouster of the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League regime amid a mass uprising. Immediately after her ouster, Hasina fled to India for shelter on August 5, 2024.

Sheikh Hasina has been charged in absentia with crimes against humanity committed during the uprising. Recently, the International Crimes Tribunal-1 sentenced her to six months in jail for contempt of court she had committed during her conversation with an Awami League leader.

Mohammad Ali’s complaint is one of several ones recently submitted to the office of the chief prosecutor. Many of them named Hasina, former Rapid Action Battalion additional director general Ziaul Ahsan for their alleged involvement in enforced disappearance.

According to Mohammad Ali’s complaint, Hasina, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, former law minister Anisul Huq and former chief of the army Abdul Aziz Khan ordered his abduction and detention.

The complaint named 12 other accused who had carried out the order.

They are the deposed prime minister’s security and defence adviser Tarique Ahmed Siddique, Tarique’s wife Shahin Siddique, retired major general and former RAB additional director general Md Ziaul Ahsan, former major general and Hatirjheel project director Sayeed Masud, former lieutenant general  Akbar Hossain, who was posted at the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence, RAB-1 commanding officer lieutenant colonel Sarowar Bin Kashem, former inspector general of police and former RAB’s director general Benazir Ahmed, retired colonel Maksurul, retired Major Sharif, driver Saiful Islam,  Awami League’ Darus Salam thana unit former sport affairs secretary Shah Jamal and former Awami League lawmaker  Abul Hasnat Maktum.

It also alleged that 30 to 35 unidentified members of the police, RAB, DGFI, NSI and the army were involved in the incident.

Mohammad Ali alleged that the perpetrators looted the properties belonging to Sujan Apparel, valued at around Tk 4.5 crore.

He claimed that this happened while he was in hiding, shortly before he was abducted and forcibly disappeared on April 25, 2019.

He alleged that, during his five-year detention, his garment factory, 10 decimals of land and a six-storey building on it near the National University in Gazipur were taken over and transferred to Agrani Bank’s Bangabandhu Avenue Branch in Dhaka.

Additionally, 59.25 decimals of land he owned in Keraniganj were sold during his detention.

According to Mohammad Ali, he was abducted by the then RAB-1 commanding officer Sarowar Bin Kashem, his team, and members of other law enforcement and intelligence agencies, all in plainclothes. The abduction took place in front of his home on DWASA Road in the capital’s Mugda area.

He said that he had gone into hiding after learning that Ziaul Ahsan, Sarowar Bin Kashem, and former IGP Benazir Ahmed were searching for him at his factory and other locations.

He believed that he was targeted because he, his family, and his employees were active BNP supporters and had participated and financed the party’s programmes.



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