At least ten more murder cases were filed against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her aides on Sunday, taking the number of cases filed against her to 66 after the fall of her government on August 5 amid a mass uprising led by students.
Hasina is accused in 56 murder cases, seven cases of genocide and crimes against humanity, one case of shooting at students and public, one case of abduction, and one case of attacking the motorcade of Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia.
The first murder case was filed against the fallen prime minister on August 13, more than a week after she had resigned and fled to India.
On Sunday, a murder case was filed against Hasina and 48 others for killing Shaikh Ashabul Yeamin, a student of Military Institute of Science and Technology, on July 18 during the movement of the Student聽 Movement Agaisnt Discrimination platform.
Victim鈥檚 uncle Abdullah-Al Kabir filed an application with the Dhaka Senior Judicial Magistrate Md Saiful Islam鈥檚 court appealing to lodge a murder case against the 49 accused.
Accepting the plea, the court ordered the Savar Model police to record the statement of the plaintiff and register the complaint as a First Information Report.
Awami League general secretary and former road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, among others, were made accused in the case.
According to the case statement, Yeamin, a student of MIST, was shot from an armoured car while he was attending a peaceful protest rally on July 18.
On the same day, a case was filed against 25 people, including Sheikh Hasina, over the killing of auto-rickshaw driver Babu Mollah in the capital during the recent anti-discrimination student movement.
Masud Rana, brother in-law of victim Babu Mollah, filed the complaint with the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court.
The court, after recording the statement of the complainant, asked the Hatirjheel police to accept the matter as First Information Report.
The other prominent accused in the case include Asaduzzaman Khan, Mohammad A Arafat and Jahangir Kabir Nanak.
According to the case documents, Babu Mollah and Masud Rana went for Jumma prayers on July 19 and when they were returning home after the prayers, the police opened fire on them, killing Babu on the spot.
A case was filed against Sheikh Hasina and 33 others with Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court for killing online news portal Dhaka Times journalist Mehedi Hasan near Kazla Toll Plaza on the Mayor Hanif flyover in Jatrabari during quota protests on July 18.聽
Rizia Begum, 36, filed the case with the court over the death of her nephew.聽
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Saddam Hossain asked the Jatrabari police to record the complaint as First Information Report.
Two other cases were also filed with the same magistrate court, in one of which Babul Mia, 42, filed a case against Hasina and 26 others over killing Jisan in Matuail on July 20.
On Sunday, yet another case was filed against Hasina and 27 others over the killing of Md Eusuf Sanowar, a seller of Trading Corporation of Bangladesh products, in the capital during recent student movement on July 20.
Mamunur Rashid, brother-in-law of victim Md Eusuf Sanowar, filed the complaint with Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Saddam Hossain. The court after recording statement of the complainant, asked the Jatrabari police to accept the matter as FIR.
Obaidul Quader and former law minister Anisul Huq were among other accused in the case.
A case was filed against 13 people, including Sheikh Hasina and erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles director general Aziz Ahmed, over killing BDR Mutiny accused and the force鈥檚 former deputy assistant director Abdur Rahim in jail custody.
Abdur Rahim鈥檚 son advocate Abdul Aziz filed the case with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Akteruzzaman.
A murder case was filed against Hasina and 21 others also on Sunday with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court for killing Jasim Uddin, 35, on July 18 in the capital鈥檚 Uttara.
聽A murder case was filed on the day against Hasina, Obaidul Quader, Asaduzzaman and 350 unnamed individuals with a Narsingdi court, Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha reported.
Angur Mia, brother-in-law of labourer Zaman, 17, who was killed in firing allegedly by the Awami League activists, lodged the case with the court of Senior Judicial Magistrate Rakibul Haque.
The court ordered the Madhabdi police to register the case in connection with Zaman鈥檚 killing.
Apart from these cases against Sheikh Hasina other cases were filed on the day.
A case was filed against 50 people, including film actor Zayed Khan, Saju Khadem and Shahriar Nazim Joy, for carrying out an attack on the motorcade of Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia during electioneering nine years ago.
Singer Asif Imam filed the case with Dhaka Metropolitan Court on Sunday.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Zaki-Al-Farabi asked the Motijheel police to record the case as FIR.
Awami League leaders鈥擲heikh Selim, Sheikh Helal, retired colonel Faruk Khan, Fazle Noor Taposh, Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya, Saber Hossain Chowdhury, Mujibur Rahman Chowdhury alias Nixon Chowdhury, Sayeed Khokon, Kazi Salahuddin, journalist Shaban Mahmood, Workers Party president Rashed Khan Menon, Jasad president Hasanul Haque Inu, former additional deputy commissioner Mehedi Hasan were among the accused.
At least 89 Awami League leaders and activists, including former state minister for foreign affairs Md Shahriar Alam, were sued in Rajshahi on charge of extorting money at gunpoint, 抖阴精品 staff correspondent in Rajshahi reported.
Mukhlesur Rahman Mukul, a member of Bagha Thana unit convening committee of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, filed the case against 39 named and 40鈥�50 unnamed people with the Bagha police on Sunday, said its officer-in-charge Abu Siddque.
