Sheikh Hasina, the original Bangladeshi prime minister, was the subject of a murder charge on Saturday in relation to the death of a university student during the country’s limit reform protests. The most recent legitimate action against her has been taken since her removal from office.
The event, which was filed in Chandgaon, even brands former education secretary Mohibul Hassan Chowdhoury Nowfel and 32 people, including some leaders of the Awami League, as defendants and includes an additional 40 to 50 unexplained individuals as accused parties, according to the bdnews24.com website.
Hasina, 76, resigned as prime minister and fled the country on August 5th amid widespread protests, in this case the eighth case ever brought against her.
After huge student protests against a quota structure in government jobs, Hasina was forced to step down from her position in India on August 5.
Early on Saturday night, Mohammad Parvez, the brother of the dying scholar Tanvir Siddiqui, filed claims at Chandgaon Police Station, according to stop main Jahedul Kabir reports.
According to the case statement, Tanvir, a student at Government Ashekane Awlia Degree College, took part in the” shutdown” program organized by the Anti-discrimination Student Movement on Aug 18.
During the opposition at Bahaddarhat home business, unexplained intruders, acting on the “orders and guidelines” of Hasina and Nowfel, threw bricks and stones and opened uncontrolled gunshots on the students. Tanvir who was shot during the incident, eventually succumbed to his wounds in the clinic.
According to the report, a scholar at Chattogram University and a friend also perished in the same incident and place. ” The same event led to the deaths of two people, including a Chattogram University pupil, at the same place, the statement said”.
In Dhaka, five further instances have been filed against her in the last four weeks. The remaining case involves claims of violence and abuse, while four of these instances are related to death.
A case against Hasina and 99 other local officials and Awami League activists was filed on Friday at the Bogura Sadar Police Station in connection with the killing of Selim Hossain, a 35-year-old native of Palikanda community in Shibganj upazila, on August 4th.
On August 4, the day before Hasina resigned and left the country, Hossain had participated in a student rally in Bogura’s Satmatha neighborhood. According to the complaint, Awami League ( AL ) leaders and activists attacked the protesters and killed Hossain using sharp weapons, following orders from Hasina and Quader. Hossain’s brother accused the AL gentlemen of murdering his nephew.
According to Dhaka Tribune, Abu Sayed, a local grocery store owner, died in a policeman shooting incident on July 19 in the Mohammadpur neighborhood of Dhaka. The second legal action against Hasina was for the death of a victim of a crime.
Over 230 lives have been lost in the violent incidents that spread across Bangladesh following the collapse of the Hasina state, bringing the total death to 560 since the anti-quota rallies started in the middle of July.
The former prime minister and nine other people were the subject of an investigation by the Bangladeshi International Crimes Tribunal on Wednesday, focusing on claims of murder and crimes against humanity committed between July 15 and August 5, during a time of widespread student protests against her leadership.
A proper complaint was submitted to the analytical division of Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal, naming Hasina, the Awami League’s public minister and former minister of road travel and roads, Quader, as well as the original home secretary, Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, and several other high-ranking members of the party.
As announced on Thursday, the UN has made the decision to send a team of experts to Bangladesh to look into the deaths of demonstrators both before and after Hasina resigned from her position as prime minister.
( With inputs from agencies )
