Ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and six others were sued with the Dhaka's Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) court on Tuesday allegedly for killing grocery shop owner Abu Sayed in the capital's Mohammadpur area on July 19.
This was the first case filed against Sheikh Hasina after she fled from Bangladesh to India, in the face of a mass upsurge of students and the people on August 5.
After recording statement of Amir Hamza Shatil who filed the case , Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury ordered the Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Mohammadpur Police Station to register the complaint as a First Information Report (FIR).
A resident of Mohammadpur, Amir Hamza Shatil in a well-wisher of the victim Abu Sayed.
The other accused are - Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader, former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, former Inspector General of Police Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun, former DB Chief Harunor Rashid, former DMP Commissioner Habibur Rahman and former DMP Joint Commissioner Biplob Kumar Sarker.
Besides, several unnamed high police officials and government officials are also accused in the case.
The complainant said in his petition that thousands of students and people were demonstrating for quota reforms at Basila 40 feet intersection under Mohammadpur police station on July19. With a view to suppressing students movement police sprayed bullets indiscriminately upon the protesting students and people. At that time the victim grocery shop owner Abu Sayed was going to safe place by crossing a road when a bullet pierced through Abu Sayed's head and he died on the spot.
Locals sent his dead body to his village home at Maroa Bamonhat Union under Boda upazila in Panchagarh district
Sayed was a poor man, his relatives living in Panchagarh, could not file a case. Being a conscious citizen and well wisher Amir Hamza Shatil filed the case.
The complainant said in his petition that the logical movement of students was continuing in a peaceful way, when without any instigation the accused unnamed policemen opened fire upon the students or order of the accused. Former prime minster and former bridge minister ordered to suppress the movement. Other accused ordered their subordinate policemen to suppress the movement. Apart from this, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal ordered the police to fire on students' procession.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was in power for the past 15 years, on August 5 , fled from Bangladesh to India, after weeks of peaceful movement during which over 400 people were killed.
