The International Crimes Tribunal received a fresh complaint on Monday against Awami League president and deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her aides for killing people in indiscriminate firing during recent student protests that led to her ouster.
This is the third complaint filed with the tribunal against Hasina and her cohorts, which took the number of cases filed against the former prime minister to 22 since August 13.
They include five more murder cases filed in Dhaka and Chattogram between Sunday night and Monday evening.
Hasina, who is now staying in India after the fall of her government through a student uprising on August 5, now faces 17 murder cases, 3 ICT cases for mass killing, and one each for abduction and attack on the motorcade of Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia.聽
The ICT cases came after the interim government on August 13 decided to hold trials for the 鈥榤ass killing鈥� committed during the Student Movement Against Discrimination between July 1 and August 5 under the International Crimes Tribunal Act.
Md Abul Hasan, the father of Shahriar Alvi, a Class IX student at Desh Polytechnic College in Mirpur, filed the latest case with the ICT鈥檚 Investigation Agency, alleging that his 15-year-old son was killed in a police firing on August 4 on the instructions and plans of Hasina and 18 of her aids.
The other accused include 12 politicians 鈥� Workers Party of Bangladesh president and former social welfare minister Rashed Khan Menon, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-Jasod president and former information minister Hasanul Haq Innu, Jatiya Party faction chairman and former environment and climate change minister Anwar Hossain Manju, AL general secretary and road, transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader, former law minister Anisul Huq, 聽prime minster鈥檚 former industries adviser Salma F Rahman, former foreign minister Hasan Mahmud, former jute minister Jahangir Kabir Nanak, former state ministers Zunaid Ahmed Polok and Mohammad Ali Arafat, former industries minister Kamal Ahmed Majumder and Bangladesh Tarikat Federation鈥檚 chairman Syed Nazibul Bashar Maizbhandari.
Former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun, former Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Habibur Rahman, former Detective Branch鈥檚 chief Harun-or-Rashid, former joint DMP commissioner Biplob Kumar Sarkar, Mirpur police station鈥檚 officer-in-charge Munshi Sabbir, and nine leaders of the Awami League and its associate bodies were also accused in the case.
The Awami League was also accused as an organisation in the ICT case.聽
Md Milon Hasan filed a murder case with the Mirpur police station in Dhaka against Hasina, Obaidul Quader, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, and 145 others on Monday, accusing them of killing his brother, Liton Hasan Lalu.
According to the case statement, Liton participated in the anti-quota protest in the capital鈥檚 Mirpur-10 crossing at about 2:00pm on August 4.
At one stage, some unidentified persons opened fire, leaving Liton seriously injured.
Liton was taken to the National Institute of Neuroscience and Hospital at Agargaon, where he succumbed to his injuries on August 7.
In another incident, Hasina and 66 others were accused of killing BNP Mirpur Thana unit Ward No. 11 vice-president Abdullah Kabir Khan, 50, in front of Ideal School in Mirpur on August 4.
Abdullah鈥檚 wife, Afsana Akhter Islam, filed the case with the Mirpur police station.
Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Mehedi Hasan directed the officer-in-charge of Mirpur police station to register both cases as the First Information Report, Abu Abdullah, bench assistant of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court.
In another case, Sheikh Hasina and 12 others were accused of killing 18-year-old Tariq Hossain, who was shot in front of the Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police station on August 5.
Later, he was rushed to Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital, where he died on August 9.
Tariq鈥檚 mother, Fidushi Khatun, filed the case with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Farah Diba Chanda.
Oabidul Quader and Asaduzzaman Khan are among the accused in the case.聽
The court asked the Police Bureau of Investigation to submit a report by September 30 after an investigation.
抖阴精品 staff correspondent in Chattogram reported that Hasina, along with 107 others, were accused on Sunday night of the murder of a student of Chittagong College.
Wasim Akram was killed on July 16 in the Muradpur area of the port city in a clash during the anti-quota protests.
Wasim鈥檚 mother, Joshna Begum, filed the case with the Panchalish police station, said Shantosh Chakma, officer-in-charge of the police station.
According to the case statement, Wasim was protesting peacefully when some AL activists opened fire, leaving him injured with bullets.
He was rushed to Chattogram Medical College Hospital, where on-duty doctors declared him dead.
On Sunday night, a murder case was filed against 62 people, including Hasina, Asaduzzaman Khan, Obaidul Quader, and former AL lawmaker for Narayanganj-4 AKM Shamim Osman, for killing a fish trader on July 21 during the student protest.聽
Shahnaz Begum, wife of the victim Milon, filed the case with Siddhirganj police station, Narayanganj district additional superintendent of police Amir Khasru confirmed.
Milon was killed by gunshots on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway.
A case was filed against 19 individuals, including Asaduzzaman Khan and Sylhet Metropolitan Police deputy commissioner Azbahar Ali Sheikh, in connection with the killing of journalist ATM Turab, United News of Bangladesh reported.
The case also named 250 unidentified persons.
Turab was shot dead during a clash between BNP supporters and police in Sylhet. His brother, Abul Hossain Mohammad Azraf Jabur, filed the case on Monday with the court of additional chief metropolitan magistrate Abdul Momen, the plaintiff鈥檚 lawyer Emran Ahmed Chowdhury confirmed.
A case was filed against 76 individuals, including former MP Mahbubul Alam Hanif and several other prominent figures, on Monday, in connection with the killing of Yusuf Sheikh. The case also named an additional 20 to 30 unidentified persons, UNB reported.
Yusuf Sheikh, 65, was shot dead during the student protests in Kushtia.
His daughter, Seema, filed the case at the Kushtia Model Police Station, officer-in-charge Mohammad Mahfuzul Haque Chowdhury of the police station confirmed.
