Three murder cases have been filed against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 79 individuals.
Additional chief metropolitan magistrate of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate's (CMM) court Tofazzal Hossain on Wednesday recorded the plaintiff's statement and ordered Khilgaon police station to register the cases.
Another complaint was directed to be accepted as a formal charge by Senior Judicial Magistrate Mostafizur Rahman at Ashulia police station. Sheikh Hasina was made the main accused in the cases.
A case was filed against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and 21 others in connection with the death of City University student Md Sajjad Hossain Sajal in Ashulia during the student-led mass movement on August 5.
Mijanur Rahman, brother of the deceased, filed a case with Dhaka Senior Judicial Magistrate Mostafizur Rahman's court.
Other accused in the case are- former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, former road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader, former Awami League lawmaker Saiful Islam, former Inspector General of Police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun, former DB chief Harun Or Rashid, former DMP commissioner Habibur Rahman and former DMP joint commissioner Biplab Kumar Sarker.
According to the case statement, hundreds of students brought out a procession in Baipail area on August 5 in support of anti-discrimination student movement. Police with the aim to control the movement, fired on the procession and detained many students.
Sajal, a student of second semester of BSc (Textile) at City University, was detained from the procession and subsequently was shot dead inside the police station.
Later, police put Sajal's body alongside the bodies of some other students in a leguna and set it on fire by pouring petrol on it, reads the statement.
In another incident, a grocery shop owner Mizanur Rahman was shot and killed in the Banasree area of Dhaka during the anti-discrimination student movement.
Victim’s father Kamal Hossain lodged complaint with the Khilgaon police station against Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana, her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy, her daughter Saima Wazed Putul, and 31 others.
According to the statement, on July 19, around 3pm, during the anti-discrimination student movement in Banasree, Mizanur Rahman was shot in the leg.
He was later taken to the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (NITOR). He succumbed to his injuries at around 5:40pm due to excessive bleeding.
