Over a dozen more cases, including three on charge of genocide, were filed on Wednesday against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her aides, taking the number of cases filed against her to 44 since the fall of her government in a student-led uprising on August 5.
Hasina, also the Awami League鈥檚 president, was accused in 34 cases of murder, 7 cases of genocide and crimes against humanity, one case of shooting at students and mobs, one case of abduction, and one case of attacking the motorcade of Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia.
In one of three complaints filed with the International Crimes Tribunal on Wednesday, Hasina was accused along with 76 others, including AL general secretary Obaidul Quader, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, former foreign minister Hasan Mahmud, and education minister Mohibul Hassan Chowdhoury, of committing genocide and crimes against humanity at Panchlaish crossing at Chattogram Metropolitan Police area during a Student Movement Against Discrimination protest on July 16.
Other accused included former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun, seven police officials of Chattogram Metropolitan Police, Chhatra League鈥檚 central president Saddam Hossain, general secretary Sheikh Wali Asif Inan, and local leaders of the Awami League and its associate bodies in Chattogram.
Supreme Court lawyer Hujjatul Islam Khan, on behalf of Zakir Hossain, the father of Faisal Ahmed Shanta, who was killed on July 16 in the Muradpur area under Chattogram鈥檚 Panchlaish police station, filed the case.聽
Another Supreme Court lawyer, Asaduzzaman, on behalf of Abdul Matin, father of college student Sheikh Shahriar Bin Matin filed the second complaint against Hasina and his aides for genocide and crimes against humanity in the capital鈥檚 Mirpur area.
The complaint states that police in Mirpur shot Shahriar on July 18 and he died two days later.
Apart from Sheikh Hasina, 49 others, including the top leaders of parties under the AL-led alliance, former ministers, police members, leaders, and activists of AL and its front organisations, were named as accused.
Besides, AL, and its front bodies were accused as organisations, and 500 unnamed leaders and activists of AL and its front organisations were accused.
Lawyer Asaduzzaman filed another ICT complaint on behalf of MA Razzaque,聽 father of Asif Iqbal, a small trader from Sripur upazila in Magura.
According to the complaint, Asif was 鈥榮hot dead by police鈥� at the capital鈥檚 Mirpur-10 crossing on July 19.
Apart from Sheikh Hasina, 71 others, including the top leaders of parties under the AL-led alliance, former ministers, police members, leaders, and activists of AL and its front organisations, were named as accused.
Besides, 500 unnamed leaders and activists of AL and front organisations and police members were accused.
Apart from this, 10 murder cases were filed with the police stations in New Market, Mirpur, Rampura, Badda, Sutrapur, Tejgaon in the capital, Gazipur, Rupganj, and Fatullah, while a case was filed in Sylhet for shooting at agitating students.
The New Market case was filed against Hasina, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, and five others by Samsi Ara Zaman Koli, the mother of photographer Tahir Zaman Priyo, who was killed in the Central Road area of the capital on July 19 during student protests.
The Mirpur police recorded a murder case against Hasina, former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque, and her aides on the charge of the killing of private company employee Firoj Talukder on July 19.
Metropolitan magistrate Md Mehedi Hasan asked the Mirpur police station鈥檚 officer-in-charge to record the case after hearing a complaint filed by Firoj鈥檚 wife, Reshma Sultana.
Obaidul Quader, Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, and Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun were also accused in the case.
The Rampura murder case was filed against Hasina and her 27 aides, including Quader and Asaduzzaman, for the killing of a freelance casting coordinator, Md Rasel Mia, during the protests on July 19.
Metropolitan magistrate Shanto Islam Mallik asked the Rampura police to record the case after hearing a complaint in court.
Hasina and 48 others were accused of the killing of college student Md Touhidul Haque in Tejgaon.
They were made the accused in a complaint filed by Touhid鈥檚 brother Torikul Islam with the court of Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Nurul Huda Chowdhury, which asked the officer-in-charge of Tejgaon police station to record it as a First Information Report.
The other prominent accused in the case are AL leaders Quader, Asaduzzaman, Anisul Huq, Salman F Rahman, Hasan Mahmud, Mohammad A Arafat, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-Jasod president Hasanul Haq Inu, and historian Muntassir Mamun.
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangastha reported that a murder case was filed against 34 people, including Hasina, Asaduzzaman, Habibur Rahman, Harun Or Rashid, Biplob Kumar, Sayeed Khokon, and Solaiman Selim, over the killing of electrician Elem Al Faydi in the capital鈥檚 Lakshmibazar area during the student movement.
Jagannath University student Samsul Arefin filed the complaint with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Torikul Islam, which asked the Sutrapur police station to record a case.
In Badda, two murder cases were filed against Hasina and 189 others over the killing of Sumon Sikder and Abdul Jabbar on July 19.
Sumon鈥檚 mother Masuma filed one case against Hasina and 178 others, including Asaduzzaman Khan and Salman F Rahman, Bashundhara Group managing director Sayem Sobhan Anvir, and managing director and editor-in-chief of Ekattor TV Mozammel Babu, while Jabbar鈥檚 mother Nazma Begum filed the other murder case against Hasina and eight others.
In Narayanganj, two murder cases were filed against Hasina and others over the killing of a 17-year-old student and a bus driver in Rupganj and Fatullah.
Hasina and 104 others were accused in the case filed with the Rupganj police station over the killing of Roman Rina.
Roman, a 10th-grade student at Naba Kisholoy High School, was shot in the Chonpara area of Rupganj on the evening of August 5.
Another case was filed with the Fatullah police station against Hasina and 79 others by the mother of Abul Hossain, who was killed during the movement.
In Gazipur, a murder case was filed on Tuesday night with the Basan police station against 139 people, including Hasina, over the death of Noor Alam, 22, during the protest on July 20, 抖阴精品 correspondent reported.
In Sylhet, Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana, AL leader Quader, and 84 others were accused of attacking and shooting at students and a mob on August 4, reported 抖阴精品 staff correspondent.
Besides the accused, 600 other unidentified people were also accused.
