Petition to file murder case against 7 people including Sheikh Hasina
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A murder case has been filed against seven people, including Awami League president and former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader.
On Tuesday (August 13), a person named SM Amir Hamza filed a case in the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury. The Magistrate said that he would pass the order after taking the statement of the plaintiff.
The plaintiff's lawyer Mamun Mia confirmed the plea of the case.
Apart from former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Obaidul Quader, former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, former IGP Abdullah Al Mamun, DMP Commissioner Habibur Rahman, Additional Commissioner Harun-or-Rashid (DB Harun) and Joint Police Commissioner Biplab Kumar Sarkar have been made accused in this case.
The petition stated that the fair and reasonable demand of the students was that the quota reform movement was going on peacefully. The unidentified policemen fired on the orders of the accused without any provocation. The former prime minister and former bridges minister ordered to suppress the movement with strong hands. The other accused directed their subordinate policemen to quell the agitation of the students. Accused Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal ordered the police to shoot at the students' procession.
On Friday (July 19), students were marching in support of the quota reform movement. To suppress the movement, the police fired indiscriminately on the protestors. At that time, grocery shopkeeper Abu Sayed (45) was shot dead by the police while crossing the road to safety at the 40 feet intersection of Mohammadpur- Basila. The bullet entered through one side of his head and exited through the other.
Locals said that after Abu Sayed was shot dead, the locals sent his body to Pradhanhat, the new slum of Marwa Bamanhat Union of Boda Upazila of Panchagarh District, where he was buried.
Abu Syed's village home is in far Panchagarh and his family is very poor. They cannot take recourse to the law. For this reason, the plaintiff filed this case as a conscious citizen.