A formal charge sheet has been submitted to a tribunal against former MP Saiful Islam and 18 others over the killing of student Shaikh Ashabul Yamin in Savar. An application for arrest warrants against fugitive accused was filed on Sunday morning, according to the report published on July 26, 2026.

The case concerns allegations that Yamin was killed after being thrown from a police armored personnel carrier, or APC, in Savar during the July movement. The report describes the incident as a killing of the student by throwing him from the armored vehicle.

Shaikh Ashabul Yamin was a fourth-year student in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the Military Institute of Science and Technology in Mirpur. While 19 people have been named as accused, the report does not identify the other defendants or state how many are fugitives.