Three more cases have been filed against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her aides, including 25 journalists, on charges of murder and attempt to murder between Wednesday night and Thursday in Dhaka and Bogura.
The new cases took to at least 118, the number of cases filed against Hasina since August 5, when she resigned and fled to India in the face of a student-led mass uprising.
A murder case was filed against Hasina, 25 journalists and 165 others for the murder of Md Fazlu in Dhaka鈥檚 Mirpur during the student-people uprising on August 5.
Confirming the matter, Bhashantek police officer-in-charge Faisal Ahmed said that victim鈥檚 elder brother Md Sabuj filed the case with the police station on Wednesday.
Former ministers Obaidul Quader, Asaduzzaman Khan, Anisul Huq, and former state ministers Kamal Ahmed Majumder, Mohammad Ali Arafat, and Zunaid Ahmed Palak were also named in the case.
Bashundhara Group chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan and his son Basundhara Group managing director Sayem Sobhan Anvir were also made accused in the case.
The accused journalists included Naem Nizam, Monjurul Ahsan Bulbul, Shyamal Dutta, Farida Yasmin, Sajjad Alam Khan Topu, Omar Faruque, Monjorul Bari Nayan, Sohel Haider Chowdhury, Haider Ali and Zayadul Ahsan Pintu.
Another murder case was filed against 122 people, including Hasina and Obaidul Quader, for the killing of rickshaw puller Abdul Mannan on August 4 in Bogura.
Confirming the matter, Bogura Sadar Police Station officer-in-charge Saihan Oliullah said that victim鈥檚 son Rana Hamid filed the case at the police station on Wednesday night.
Another case was filed against seven people, including Hasina, for allegedly attempting to kill former Bangladesh Nationalist Party lawmaker Nazim Uddin Alam in 2012.
Nazim Uddin filed the case with the court of Dhaka judicial magistrate SM Saiful Islam on Thursday.
After recording statement of the complainant, the court asked the Savar Model police station to file the matter as regular case.
According to the case documents, police attacked on Nazim Uddin Alam, along with BNP leaders and activists as they took position on Amin Bazar Bridge in support of BNP-led alliance鈥檚 sit-in on December 9, 2012.
Police fired tear shells and shotgun pellets indiscriminately on them, leaving more than 50 BNP leaders and activists, including Nazim Uddin, injured in the attack.
Other accused in the case included then home minister Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir, former lawmaker Abdullah Al Islam Jacob, then inspector general of police Hasan Mahmud Khandaker, then Dhaka range deputy inspector general SM Mahfuzul Haque Nuruzzaman, then Dhaka district superintendent of police Habibur Rahman and Savar Model police officer-in-charge Asaduzzaman.
