A Dhaka court today asked (wb‡`©k w`‡q‡Q) police to submit by November 11 the probe report of the case(gvgjv) filed (bw_fz³
n‡q‡Q) against former (mve‡K)
prime minister Sheikh
Hasina and six others (Av‡iv
6 Rb) over the death of grocery shop owner (gyw` †`vKv‡bi gvwjK) Abu Saeed in police firing (cywj‡ki ¸wj‡Z) in the capital's Mohammadpur area during quota reform (ms¯‹vi) protests (Av‡›`vjb) on July 19.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Zaki Al
Farabi set (wba©vib K‡ib) the date after Md Moktaruzzaman, an inspector of Detective Branch of Police and
the investigation officer
of the case, failed
(e¨_© nb) to submit (Rgv w`‡Z)
any report (cÖwZ‡e`b)
today.
The other accused (Awfhy³iv)
of the case are Awami League General Secretary
Obaidul Quader, former
home minister
Asaduzzaman Khan, former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al
Mamun, former DB (Dhaka Metropolitan Police) chief Harun Or Rashid, former DMP
commissioner Habibur Rahman, and former DMP joint commissioner Biplob Kumar
Sarker.
On August 13, SM Amir
Hamza Shatil, a resident
(evwm›`v) of
Mohammadpur, filed (bw_fz³ K‡ib)
the murder case (nZ¨v
gvgjvwU) with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan
Magistrate Rajesh
Chowdhury.
This is the first case
(gvgjv) lodged (bw_fz³)
against Hasina after she resigned (c`Z¨v‡Mi ci)
and went to India amid (g‡a¨)
a mass uprising (MY
Af¨Ìvb) on August 5.
After a hearing (kybvwbi
ci), the magistrate recorded (wjwce×
K‡ib) the complainant's (ev`x)
statement (e³e¨)
and directed (wb‡`©k
†`b) the officer-in-charge of Mohammadpur Police
Station to register the complaint
(Awf‡hvM †jL‡Z) as a
first information report (FIR).
In the case, several unnamed (†ebvwg)
top police officials and other government officials have also been made accused (Awfhy³
Kiv n‡q‡Q), Mamun Mia, a lawyer for the
complainant (ev`xi AvBRxex), told The Daily Star.
The complainant was not the relative
(AvZœxq) of the
victim (fy³‡fvMx), he filed the case voluntarily (‡m”Qvq), he added.
In his complaint, Shatil mentioned (D‡jø Ki‡b)
that Saeed was killed (†g‡i †djv
nq) around (w`‡K)
4:00pm on July 19 when police were firing
indiscriminately (G‡jvcv_vwi)
on the protesters (Av‡›`vjbKvix‡`i
Dci), following (Abymib
K‡i) the accused's directives (Awfhy³‡`i
wb‡`©kbv).
Former home minister
Asaduzzaman ordered (Av‡`k †`b)
police to open fire (¸wj
Pvjv‡Z) on the demonstrators (we‡ÿvfKvix‡`i
Dci), read the complaint.
The victim's family members, who are very
poor, live in Boda upazila of Panchagarh. They do not have the ability (mvg_¨©
†bB) to file the case, he mentioned (D‡jøL
K‡ib) in the complaint (Awf‡hv‡M).
Hasina is now facing
221 cases, including (mn) 190 for murders, 16 for crimes against humanity (gvbeZv
we‡ivax) and genocide (MYnÎv), three for abduction (AcniY), 11 for attempted murder (nZ¨v
†Póv) and one for attack on a BNP procession (wgwQj).
Earlier, Former IGP
Abdullah Al Mamun, former social welfare minister Dipu Moni and former deputy
sports minister Arif Khan Joy, were arrested (†MÖdZvi
Kiv nq) in connection with the case, and they were placed (†`qv
nq) on different terms (wewfbœ
†gqv‡`) of remand for quizzing
(wR½vmvev‡`i Rb¨) about
the incident (NUbv).
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