Bangladesh The court on Tuesday ex-prime minister Sheikh Hasina And has ordered a murder investigation against six high-ranking officials of his administration.
A homicide probe has been ordered into the death of a citizen at the hands of the police during riots last month.
According to the French news agency AFP, lawyer Mamoon Mia, who approached the court on behalf of a citizen, said that “a case has been filed against Sheikh Hasina and six other people.”
He added that the Dhaka Metropolitan Court had ordered the police to receive a request for a ‘murder case against the accused’.
According to Bangladesh law, this is the first step of investigation in a criminal case.
Mamoon Mia has nominated Sheikh Hasina’s former interior minister Asadul Zaman Khan and Awami League secretary general Obaid Qadir in the petition filed in the court.
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He also nominated the top police officers appointed by the Sheikh Hasina government who have left their posts.
The trial held the seven men responsible for the death of a shopkeeper who was shot dead by police on July 19 during a violent crackdown on protesters.
The Daily Star newspaper reported that the case was filed by Amir Hamza Shatal, a resident of the neighborhood and the deceased’s ‘well-wisher’, where the shooting took place.
Hasina Wajid’s government has been accused of widespread human rights violations, including the extrajudicial killings of thousands of her political opponents.
The 76-year-old Hasina flew to neighboring India by helicopter a week ago after protesters took to the streets en masse in Dhaka. Four and a half hundred people lost their lives during the weeks of unrest that led to the fall of his government.
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2024-08-15 11:32:30
