Fifteen army officers -- accused in a case involving killings during the July uprising and two cases of enforced disappearance -- have been taken to a sub-jail inside the cantonment, defence counsel Barrister M Sarwar Hossain said today.

The prison authorities will now review the sub-jail arrangements, the defence lawyer said.

Earlier, the officers, who were in the custody of the Bangladesh Army, were brought to the tribunal around 7:00am and produced before the ICT-1 amid tight security.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), and police were deployed in and around the court premises. They were transported in a green, air-conditioned special prison van.

The officers are: Maj Gen Sheikh Md Sarwar Hossen; Brigadier Generals Md Jahangir Alam, Tofayel Mostofa Sarwar, Md Qamrul Hasan, Md Mahbub Alam, Md Mahbubur Rahman Siddique and Ahmed Tanvir Majahar Siddique; Colonels Anowar Latif Khan, AKM Azad, Abdullah Al Momen and Md Sarwar Bin Kashem; Lieutenant Colonels Md Moshiur Rahman Jewel, Saiful Islam Sumon and Mohammad Redowanul Islam; and Major Rafat Bin Alam Moon.

The government had designated a building of the Military Engineer Services (MES) in Dhaka Cantonment as a temporary jail. According to a gazette notification issued by the home ministry on October 12, MES Building No 54, located north of Bashar Road, had been declared as a temporary jail under the provisions of the Prisoners Act, 1984.