
Five more murder cases were filed against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her aides in Dhaka, Narayanganj, Rajshahi, Rangpur, and Joypurhat between Saturday night and Sunday evening.
With this, 11 murder cases and an abduction case have been filed against Hasina and her aides at different police stations across the country.
In addition to that, two complaints were filed with the International Crimes Tribunal over mass killings against Hasina, who resigned amid a student-led mass uprising and fled to India on August 5.
A case was filed on Sunday against the ousted prime minister and 12 others over the murder of two students in the capital’s Sutrapur area during the recent student protests led by the platform Student Movement Against Discrimination.
The 12 other accused are former road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader, Dhaka south city mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, former foreign minister Hasan Mahmud, former education Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury Nowfel, former state minister for posts, telecommunications, and information technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak, former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun, former Dhaka Metropolitan Police detective branch chief Harun Or Rashid, DMP joint commissioner Biplob Kumar, and former DMP commissioner Habibur Rahman.
Another 200-250 unnamed people, including leaders and activists of the Awami League and its front organisations, were made accused in the case.
One Nasrin Begum filed the case with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Torikul Islam over the killing of Kobi Nazrul Govt College student Ikram Hossain Kawser and Shaheed Suhrawardi College student Omar Faruk.
The two students were allegedly gunned down in separate incidents by police, Awami League leaders, and activists as they were staging protests along with hundreds of others in front of Kobi Nazrul Govt College and Shaheed Suhrawardi College on July 19.
A fresh case was filed on Sunday against Hasina and 111 others on charge of killing a schoolboy on August 5, ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· staff correspondent in Rajshahi reported.
Fazer Ali, the father of Yasin Islam, who was burned to death inside Natore-2 constituency former lawmaker Shahfiqul Islam Shimul’s residence on August 5, filed the case with the Natore Sadar police station.
Beside Hasina, Shimul, Natore district AL president Sirajul Islam, general secretary Shariful Islam Ramzan, joint general secretary Golam Mortuza Bablu, organising secretary Malek Sheikh, Natore municipal AL president Syed Mostak Ali, general secretary Habibur Rahman, and Natore municipality mayor Uma Chowdhury were named as accused in the case.
According to the case statement, under the instruction of Sheikh Hasina, lawmaker Shimul and his men detained Yasin, 17, from a peaceful protest of the Student Movement Against Discrimination on August 04.
A case was filed on Sunday with a Rangpur court against the ousted PM Hasina on charge of killing Abdullah Al-Tahir, a student of the Bangladesh Institute of Glass and Ceramics.
Tahir’s father, Abdur Rhaman, filed the case with the Rangpur Metropolitan Kotwali Cognisance Court.
A total of 40 individuals, including former ministers and members of the units of Rangpur district and city Awami League, Swechchhasebak League, Juba League, and Chhatra League, were named as accused, along with 300 unidentified persons.
The accused include AL general secretary Obaidul Quader, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, former law minister Anisul Huq, former foreign minister Hasan Mahmud, and former textile and jute minister Jahangir Kabir Nanak.
A murder case has been filed against the former prime minister, Obaidul Quader, and 126 others over the killing of a student in Joypurhat during the student movement.
The student, Nazibul Sorkar, also known as Bishal, was a student at Panchbibi Business Management Institute. Nazibul was shot dead as law enforcers opened fire at him during the student protests in Joypurhat on August 4.
Nazibul’s father, Majidul Sorkar, filed the case before the court of senior judicial magistrate Atikur Rahman in Joypurhat.
The court has directed the officer-in-charge of Joypurhat Sadar police station to register the case as an FIR, as confirmed by the plaintiff’s lawyer, Abdul Momin Fakir.
The list of accused includes Sheikh Hasina, Obaidul Quader, along with the former whip, two Joypurhat lawmakers of the dissolved parliament, top leaders of the district Awami League, and other public representatives, the lawyer added.
On Saturday night, a case was filed against AL president Sheikh Hasina, its general secretary Obaidul Quader, former local lawmaker Shamim Osman, and 45 others on charge of killing a youth during the August 5 clash in Narayanganj.
Victim Abul Hasan’s elder brother Abul Bashar lodged the case with Narayanganj Sadar Model Police Station on Saturday night, said officer-in-charge Abdus Sattar.
Abul Hasan, a 20-year-old sales representative of a soft drink company, hails from the Kushiyara area in Bandar upazila of the district.
Apart from Hasina, some cases were also lodged against AL leaders and activists across the country.
Seventeen people, including former IGP Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun, were in a case filed with a Rangpur court over the killing of Begum Rokeya University student Abu Sayeed on Sunday.Â
Abu Sayeed’s elder brother, Ramjan Ali, filed a petition around 11:30am with a Rangpur court to register a case in connection with the killing in police fire during the quota reform movement on July 16.Â
Additional chief metropolitan magistrate Raju Ahmed passed the order to the Tajhat police station to record the case.
The accused in the case include former IGP Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun, Rangpur range deputy inspector general of police Abdul Baten, Rangpur Metropolitan Police commissioner Md Moniruzzaman, deputy police commissioner Abu Maruf Hossain, assistant commissioner Imaran Hossain, Tajhat police station officer-in-charge Rabiul Islam, assistant sub-inspector Syed Amir Ali, and constable Sujon Chandra Ray.
Another case was filed on Sunday against 82 leaders and activists of the Awami League on charge of attacking a man on August 5.
Abdul Matin, 32, a villager of Khapur village, filed the case with Bagmara police station against 22 named and 50 to 60 unnamed people, said Arobindo Sarker, officer-in-charge of the police station.
In the case, former Rajshahi-4 lawmaker and Bagmara upazila Awami Legaue general secretary Abul Kalam Azad, his wife and Taherpur municipality mayor Khandakar Shaila Pervin, and Bagmara upazila parishad chairman Jakirul Islam, among others, were made accused.
Earlier, seven cases were filed against Hasina and her aides in Chittagong, Bogura, and Dhaka between August 13 and August 17.
Besides, two cases were filed over mass killings against Hasina with the investigation agency of the ICT on August 14 and August 15, accusing her, her cabinet members, Awami League leaders, and top police officers of mass killings and crimes against humanity during the student-led mass uprising between July 15 and August 5.