A homicide case was filed in opposition to Bangladesh’s former prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday over the dying of a faculty pupil throughout the quota reform protests within the nation, the most recent within the string of circumstances filed in opposition to her after her ouster.
The case was filed in opposition to Hasina, former training minister Mohibul Hassan Chowdhoury Nowfel, and 32 others, together with a number of Awami League leaders, in Chandgaon, bdnews24.Com portal reported. A further 40 to 50 unidentified individuals have additionally been made accused within the case, it mentioned.
That is the seventh case filed in opposition to Hasina following her ouster amid mass protests. Hasina, 76, fled to India on August 5 after she was pressured to resign following a large protest by college students in opposition to a quota system in authorities jobs.
Mohammad Parvez, the uncle of the deceased pupil Tanvir Siddiqui, introduced the costs at Chandgaon Police Station early on Saturday morning, the report quoted the station chief Jahedul Kabir as saying.
Based on the case assertion, Tanvir, a pupil at Authorities Ashekane Awlia Diploma School, participated within the “shutdown” programme of the Anti-discrimination Pupil Motion on Aug 18. Through the protest at Bahaddarhat kitchen market, unidentified attackers hurled bricks and stones and indiscriminate gunfire was opened on the scholars on the “orders and instructions” of Hasina and Nowfel.
Tanvir was shot and later died within the hospital. The identical incident led to the deaths of two others, together with a Chattogram College pupil, on the identical location, the report mentioned.
5 different circumstances have been lodged in opposition to her in Dhaka within the final 4 days, 4 of that are homicide circumstances, whereas one entails abduction and torture expenses.
On Friday, Hasina and 99 different native leaders and activists of her Awami League get together had been sued in a case filed with Bogura Sadar Police Station over the homicide of 35-year-old Selim Hossain, a resident of Palikanda village of Shibganj upazila, on August 4.
On August 4, the day earlier than Hasina resigned and fled the nation, Hossain joined college students’ protest in Bogura’s Satmatha space. Based on the criticism, Awami League (AL) leaders and activists attacked the protesters and hacked Hossain to dying with sharp weapons.
Hossain’s brother alleged that AL males killed his brother after getting orders from Hasina and Quader. In the meantime, former MP and ex-water sources minister, Ramesh Chandra Sen, has been arrested and despatched to jail on Saturday in a case filed for hurling a crude bomb on college students throughout the pupil motion on July 16.
Thakurgaon Chief Judicial Justice of the Peace Court docket Choose Rajib Kumar Roy gave the order after Ramesh was produced earlier than the courtroom on Saturday afternoon. Sen additionally served within the Awami League as a presidium member, an advisory council member, and most not too long ago, a member of the Central Election Board. He held the place of Minister of Water Assets from 2009 to 2014.
Over 230 individuals had been killed in Bangladesh within the incidents of violence that erupted throughout the nation following the autumn of the Hasina authorities, taking the dying toll to 560 for the reason that anti-quota protests first began in mid-July.
Bangladesh’s Worldwide Crimes Tribunal on Wednesday began an investigation in opposition to the previous premier and 9 others on expenses of genocide and crimes in opposition to humanity that occurred from July 15 to August 5 throughout college students’ mass motion in opposition to her authorities.
A criticism was filed on Wednesday with the investigation company of Bangladesh’s Worldwide Crimes Tribunal in opposition to Hasina, Awami League normal secretary and former highway transport and bridges minister Quader, former residence minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, and several other different outstanding figures inside the get together.
A staff of UN consultants will go to Bangladesh subsequent week to analyze the killings of the protesters forward of and within the aftermath of Sheikh Hasina’s resignation because the prime minister final week, it was introduced on Thursday.
An interim authorities was shaped after the autumn of the Hasina-led regime, and 84-year-old Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus has been appointed as its Chief Adviser.
