Order to investigate the murder case against 7 people including Sheikh Hasina

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Order to investigate the murder case against 7 people including Sheikh Hasina

Order to investigate the murder case against 7 people including Sheikh Hasina

The court has ordered investigation into the murder case against 7 people including former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and former Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader, alleging the killing of grocery shopkeeper Abu Sayed (45) at Mohammadpur Basila 40 feet intersection by indiscriminate firing to suppress the quota reform movement.

On Tuesday (August 13), one SM Amir Hamza filed the case in the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury. After taking the statement of the plaintiff in the afternoon, the judge treated the case as a statement and ordered Mohammadpur police station to investigate the incident.

বিজ্ঞাপন

The plaintiff's lawyer, Mamun Mia, gave this information.

Apart from Sheikh Hasina and 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 Sarker have been made accused in this case.

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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.

Last 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 Sayeed 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.