Two fresh murder cases were filed against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her aides on Thursday, taking the number of cases filed against her to 46 since the fall of her government on August 5 amid a mass uprising led by student protesters.
Hasina, also the Awami League president, was accused in 36 murder cases, seven 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.
Out of the two murder cases on Thursday, one was filed against 47 people, including Hasina, over the听 killing of hawker Md Shahabul Islam Shawon in the Baipail area of Savar on August 4, a day before the resignation of the authoritarian ruler.
The victim鈥檚 relative, Md Mojibul Hossain, filed the complaint with the court of Dhaka Senior Judicial Magistrate Rabeya Sultana.
The court directed the听 Ashulia police station officer-in-charge to register the case as the First Information Report.
The other accused in the case include AL general secretary Obaidul Quader, Hasina鈥檚 former private industry and investment adviser Salman F Rahman, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, and former law minister Anisul Huq, among others.
Around 200 to 300 unidentified people were also accused in the case.
According to the case statement, Shawon, 30, joined the protest on the morning of August 4.
At that time, law enforcers opened fire indiscriminately at the protesting students at instruction by accused no 1-17, leaving Shawon with a bullet injury.
He was taken to the Dhamrai upazilla health complex where he was declared dead at about 1:30pm.
The second case of the day was filed with the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Court against 81 persons, including Hasina, Obaidul Quader, and Asaduzzaman Khan, over the killing of Azizul Mia on July 18, Bangladesh Sangbad Sanstha reported.
Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Nahid Miazi ordered the Narsingdi Sadar police station to accept the case.
Azizul was shot in police firing during the recent nationwide student protests.
Later, he succumbed to his injuries on July 22 at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
A number of leaders of the Narsingdi district Awami League and its associate bodies, former public representatives, and 400鈥�500 unidentified people were also accused in the case.
United News of Bangladesh reported that a case was filed accusing 410 people, including two former lawmakers, of killing a 12-year-old boy during protests in Baniachaung upazila of Habiganj on August 5.
In the case, a total of 160 people, including former lawmakers Moyez Uddin Sharif, Abdul Majid Khan and AL鈥檚 youth wing Juba League district unit president Abul Kashem Chowdhury, were named as accused.
Besides, 250 unidentified people were also accused in the case.
Victim Hasan Mia鈥檚 father, Chhanu Mia, filed the case with the Baniachaung police station, said the police station鈥檚 officer-in-charge, Mohammad Delowar Hossain.
On August 5, nine people, including Hasan, were killed in a firing allegedly by the AL men after a clash broke out between AL activists and the protesters in Baniachaung upazila.
Meanwhile, a case was filed in Gopalganj naming 106 people and over 3,200 unidentified ones for assaulting army personnel, vandalising vehicles, arson attacks, and snatching weapons.
Md Maksudul Alam, commander of the temporary camp of the Army in Gopalganj, filed the case at the Gopalganj Sadar police station, UNB reported.
Gopalganj district AL president Mahbub Ali Khan and general secretary GM Sahab Uddin Azam were among the 106 named accused.
On August 10, thousands of leaders and activists of the AL blocked the Dhaka-Khulna highway at Gopinathpur in Gopalganj Sadar upazila, protesting at the 鈥榝orced exile鈥� of ousted PM Hasina and demanding her return to the country.
Two army patrol teams were dispatched to the scene.
After this, the protesters attacked army personnel, vandalising and setting fire to army vehicles.
Two weapons belonging to the army were snatched, while nine army personnel were injured in the incident.
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