The Rajshahi police on early Saturday arrested two people in a case filed fourteen years ago for committing crimes against humanity during Bangladesh’s Liberation War in 1971.
The arrestees are Mofiz Uddin, 75, and Khetab, 80, of Kaluhati village under Charghat upazila in Rajshahi.
At a press briefing, ABM Masud Hossain, superintendent of the district police, said that, acting on a tip-off, a team of Charghat police arrested the duo at their homes at Kaluhati village at around 1:00am on Saturday.
He said that Golam Hossain, a resident of Kaluhati village, filed a case against six people including Mofiz and Khetab with Charghat Model Police Station on April 4, 2009 for committing crimes against humanity in 1971.
ABM Masud Hossain said that three, out of the six accused in the case, died while the rest one was still absconding.
He said that the duo arrestees went into hiding following the filing of the case and had returned home recently.
‘The process of handing them over to the International Crimes Tribunal through a Rajshahi court is underway’, the police official added.