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A fresh case was filed against ousted prime minister and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina and AL general secretary Obaidul Quader in Bogura on Thursday for the murder of a teacher on聽August 4.

With this, five murder cases and an abduction case have been filed against Hasina and her aides with different police stations, including the one in Bogura.


In addition to that, two complaints were filed with the International Crimes Tribunal over mass killings.

In the case filed with the Bogura Sadar Police Station, 99 local AL leaders and activists were also accused of the killing of Selim Hossain, a 35-year-old teacher, alongside Hasina and Quader.聽

Besides, 350 unnamed people were also accused in the case.

Bogura Sadar police station officer-in-charge Saihan Waliullah confirmed the filing of the case by the victim鈥檚 father, Sikandar Hossain.

According to the case statement, AL leaders and activists attacked the protesters and hacked Selim to death with sharp weapons in Bogura鈥檚 Satmatha area on August 4 as he joined the protests of the Student Movement Against Discrimination.

Two former AL lawmakers led the attack, the case statement said.

On August 14 and August 15, two cases were filed over mass killings against Hasina with the investigation agency of the ICT, accusing her, her cabinet members, Awami League leaders, and top police officers of mass killings and crimes against humanity during the student-led mass uprising between July 15 and August 5.

On August 15, two murder cases were filed against Hasina and others over the killing of a 12-year-old madrassah student and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver in court. The court transferred the cases to Mohammadpur and Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police stations for investigation.

On August 14, Hasina and her aides were sued in a case filed with the CMM court in Dhaka over the killing of an 18-year-old student of Dhaka Model Degree College in the capital鈥檚 Kafrul area. The court asked Kafrul police station to take the case into cognizance and investigate.

On the same day, Supreme Court lawyer Sohel Rana filed an abduction case against Hasina and four others on charges of abducting聽 and holding him hostage for six months in 2015. Uttara Police are investigating the case.

On August 13, Hasina, along with six others, were sued on charges of killing grocery shop owner Abu Sayed in the capital鈥檚 Mohammadpur on July 19. The case is under investigation by Mohammadpur police.