Not less than 4 extra homicide instances have been filed towards ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, her former cupboard ministers and aides, media reported on Sunday.
A homicide case was filed on Sunday towards Hasina, 76, former Border Guard Bangladesh director basic Basic Aziz Ahmed and 11 others over the demise of Abdur Rahim, an officer of the then Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) in 2010, state information company BSS reported.
Rahim, then Deputy Assistant Director (DAD) of the erstwhile BDR, was an accused within the case filed over the Pilkhana bloodbath in 2010. He died in jail on 29 July that yr.
Rahim’s son, lawyer Abdul Aziz, filed the case within the court docket of Dhaka Metropolitan Justice of the Peace Md Akteruzzaman.
One other homicide case was filed on Sunday towards Hasina and 48 others for killing a scholar of the Army Institute of Science and Expertise (MIST) in the course of the Anti-Discrimination Scholar Motion on July 18, the company mentioned.
The sufferer’s uncle, Shaikh Ashabul Yeamin, Abdullah-Al Kabir, on Sunday filed a petition within the court docket of Dhaka Chief Judicial Justice of the Peace Md Saiful Islam, searching for to register a homicide case towards all 49 accused, he added.
Accepting the petition, the court docket ordered the police to file the petitioner’s assertion and register the grievance as a primary info report (FIR).
Awami League basic secretary and former Highway Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader and former Residence Minister Asaduzzaman Khan, amongst others, have been made accused within the case.
A separate case has been filed towards Hasina and 27 others for the homicide of a Buying and selling Company of Bangladesh (TCB) merchandise vendor within the capital in the course of the current protests.
The grievance was lodged by Mamunur Rashid, brother-in-law of the sufferer, Md Eusuf Sanowar, earlier than Dhaka Metropolitan Justice of the Peace Saddam Hossain. The court docket requested the officer-in-charge of Jatrabari police station to simply accept the matter as a primary info report (FIR).
The opposite distinguished accused within the case are Awami League basic secretary Obaidul Quader and former ministers Anisul Huq and Tajul Islam.
One other case has been filed towards 25 folks, together with Hasina, for the homicide of an auto-rickshaw driver within the capital in the course of the current protests.
Hasina, the Awami League president, now faces not less than 53 instances, together with 44 for homicide, seven for crimes towards humanity and genocide, one for kidnapping and one for an assault on a Bangladesh Nationalist Get together (BNP) procession.
Hasina resigned and fled to India on August 5 after unprecedented scholar protests towards her authorities over a controversial employment quota system.
The Hasina-led authorities was changed by an interim authorities, with Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, 84, appointed as her senior adviser.
Greater than 230 folks have been killed in Bangladesh in nationwide violence that erupted following the autumn of Hasina’s authorities, elevating the demise toll to greater than 600 since mass scholar protests towards a controversial quota system in authorities jobs started in mid-July.
