A case was filed against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque and three others in connection with the killing of an office assistant, who was shot from a helicopter during the students' movement in the city's Mirpur.
Victim's wife Reshma Sultana filed the case with the court of Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Mehedi Hasan on Wednesday (August 21).
The court directed Mirpur Model Police Station's OC to register the case recording the statement of the plaintiff.
Other accused of the case are former bridges minister Obaidul Quader, home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and former IGP Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun.
The case states that at the directive of Sheikh Hasina, former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque abolished the caretaker government provision in the constitution unilaterally ignoring the opinions of other amicus curie. His judgement subsequently led to establishing autocracy in the country and paved the way for Sheikh Hasina and her accomplices to apply the state power authoritarian manner. Later in 2014 and 2018, Sheikh Hasina and other accused continued to kill people through murder, forced disappearance and crossfire apart from brutal torture and repression.
During the movement, around 6pm on July 19, Firoz Talukder, an office assistant of Rangpur Chemical Ltd, got bullet-ridden during firing by RAB personnel from a helicopter while he was crossing Gol Chattar at Mirpur-10. He was then rushed to a nearby hospital where the on-duty doctrs declared him dead.
The others accused in the case are Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan and former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Manun.
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