Six fresh cases — four for murders, one for abduction and one for arson attack — were filed against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her aides between Monday night and Tuesday.
Hasina, also president of Awami league, is now facing a total of 73 cases after the fall of her government on August 5 amid a mass uprising led by students.
She is accused in 61 murder cases, seven cases over genocide and crimes against humanity, one case for shooting at students and public, two abduction cases, one case for arson attack and one case of attacking the motorcade of Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia.
Among the six new cases filed, four murder cases were filed with four separate Dhaka courts, and two cases of abduction and one case of arson attack were filed in Rajshahi.
Out of the four cases filed in Dhaka on Tuesday, one was filed against Hasina and 21 others for the killing of Mansur Miah, a machine operator of Buriganga Filling Station at Basila of Mohammadpur on July 19.
Victim’s brother Ainal Haque filed the case with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury.
Later, the court ordered Mohamamdpur Police Station to register the case as FIR.
The second case was filed against Hasina and 48 others for the death of Dulal alias Selim in the city’s Jatrabari area on August 3.
Victim’s brother Mostafa Kamal filed the case with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Saddam Hossain.
Other accused included former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, AL general secretary Obaidul Quader, former AL lawmakers Shamim Osman and Ramesh Chandra.
The magistrate asked the officer-in-charge of Jatrabari Police Station to register it as a First Information Report.
Quader, Asaduzzaman, former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun, former detective branch chief Harun-or Rashid and others were among the accused.
The third case was filed against Hasina and 91 others for the death of Miraj Hossain at Sanarpar in the city’s Demra area on August 5.
Victim’s bother Khorshed Alam filed the case with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Belal Hossain.
The magistrate asked the officer-in-charge of Demra Police Station to register it as a FIR.
The fourth case was filed against 42 including Hasina for the death of 21-year-old Nahidul Islam at Mirpur 10 on July 19.
Victim’s brother Md Sabuj filed the case with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mehedi Hasan.
The court ordered Mirpur police station to take it as FIR.
In Rajshahi, ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· correspondent reported that a case was filed against Hasina and her aides on Monday night in Rajshahi for allegedly abducting Chhatra Dal leader SM Salahuddin Ahmmed Shamim Sarkar on May 21, 2023.
Salahuddin, convener of Bagha upazila Chhatra Dal, filed the case against 54 including Hasina, said Bagha police station officer-in-charge Abu Siddque.
According to the case statement, under the direct instruction of Sheikh Hasina, the other accused forcibly picked up Salahuddin in front of the Bagha New Bus Stand on May 21, 2023.
Meanwhile, Chhatra Dal activist Jahid Hasan also filed another case with Bagha police station on Monday night accusing 141 including Hasina and other 100 to150 unnamed AL leaders and activists for vandalising and setting a grocery shop on fire at Kishorpur Bazar on August 25, said OC Abu Siddque.
In Rangpur, a case was filed against former lawmaker of Rangpur- 6 constituency, Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury, and 16 others over the killing of a gold shop worker, Muslim Uddin Milon during the anti-quota movement on July 19.
The victim’s wife Dilruba Akhter filed the case with Rangpur Metropolitan Kotwali Cognisance court on Tuesday noon, ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· correspondent in Rangpur reported.
The plaintiff lawyer, Mofazzal Hossain Bokul said that the gold shop worker, Milon was shot dead in a police firing during a protest in front of the city market during a clash between protesters and police and AL activists.  Â
¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· correspondent in Jessore reported that a case was filed against six people including Anisur Rahman, former superintendent of Jessore police, for allegedly abducting Md Masum on August 3, 2015.
Kuddus Ali, maternal uncle of enforced disappearance victim Md Masum filed a case with the court of Golam Kibria, senior judicial magistrate on Tuesday.
Shikdar Akkas Ali, officer in-charge of Kotwali police station, sub-inspector Abu Ansar and constables Hafiz, Sayeed, and Hasnat were also accused in the case.
According to the case statement, Md Masum had been missing since he was picked by the police of Kotwali police station in 2015 while returning home from a rally of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.
The court asked the Kotwali police station to register the case.
