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Another murder case filed against Hasina

Seven journalists also accused in the Jatrabari student killing case

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Another murder case filed against Hasina
Seven journalists also accused in the Jatrabari student killing case

Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. File photo

A murder case was filed against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and 192 others, including seven journalists, over the death of a student in the capital's Jatrabari area on July 19.

Nayeem Howlader, 17, an HSC student at Shanarpar Rowshan Ara Degree College, was shot dead in Jatrabari during the protests centring on the quota reform system.

On Thursday, Nayeem's father Kamrul Islam filed the murder case with Jatrabari Police Station naming 193 individuals.

Besides, 80-90 police officers and members assigned to the Wari Zone on the day of the incident, as well as 250-300 unidentified individuals, were accused in the case.

The accused include Hasina, multiple ministers and MPs, mayors, police officers, journalists, Awami League leaders, Jubo League and Chhatra League members, as well as officials from the police and Rapid Action Battalion.

The journalists named in the case are: Mozammel Haque Babu, managing director and editor-in-chief of Ekattor TV; Syed Ishtiaque Reza, former chief news editor (CNE) of Ekattor TV; Ahmed Jobaer, a director of Somoy TV; Munni Saha, former CNE of ATN News; Farzana Rupa, former principal correspondent of Ekattor TV; Shakil Ahmed, former head of news at Ekattor TV; and Nayeemul Islam Khan, Hasina's press secretary.

Among them, Shakil Ahmed and Farzana Rupa are on remand for four days in a murder case of a garment worker filed with Uttara East Police Station. They were arrested at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Wednesday.

Multiple cases have so far been filed against Hasina, her party members and law enforcement officers over the deaths caused by police gunfire.

In some cases, journalists have also been named, a feature of the previous Awami League government.

Asked why such cases are still occurring, Asif Nazrul, the law affairs adviser to the interim government, said: "We cannot prevent a guardian of a deceased student from filing a case based on their judgment."

The previous government had institutionalised the practice of filing such broad cases, he said.

"Perhaps we are witnessing the aftermath now. However, we will ensure that no one is harassed without a proper investigation," Nazrul added.

In the case filed with Jatrabari Police Station, the plaintiff Kamrul Islam said some "reckless, corrupt, self-serving and overly enthusiastic officers" of the police, Rab and BGB indiscriminately opened fire on the protesting students and civilians on the orders -- both direct and indirect -- of former PM Hasina and 14-party alliance leaders.

Following Hasina's orders, the accused, armed and intending to launch an armed assault on the peaceful protesters, recklessly fired on the innocent students, it said.

This resulted in the deaths of over a thousand people including his son Nayeem, with countless others injured, according to the first information report.

Besides Hasina, the other accused include her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy and her daughter Saima Wazed Putul, currently serving as the South East Asian regional director for the World Health Organisation.

Hasina's cousin Sheikh Helal Uddin, also a former MP, and his son Sheikh Sarhan Naser Tonmoy, also a former MP, were accused in the case.

Obaidul Quader, secretary general of Awami League; Anwar Hossain Manju; Hasanul Haq Inu; Rashed Khan Menon; Amir Hossain Amu; Tajul Islam; Anisul Haque; Dipu Moni; Mohammad A Arafat; SM Rezaul Karim; Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir; Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal; AFM Bahauddin Nasim; Hasan Mahmud; Shajahan Khan; Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury; and Zunaid Ahmed Palak were made accused too.

The list of accused also includes Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh, former mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation; Atiqul Islam, former mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation; and former MP Haji Mohammad Selim.

Others named as accused include former BCL president Badiuzzaman Sohag, former general secretaries Zakir Hossain and Siddique Nazmul Alam, Jubo League Chairman Sheikh Fazle Shams Parash, Jubo League General Secretary Mainul Hossain Khan Nikhil, former MP and actor Ferdous Ahmed, and Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee president Shahriar Kabir.

The police officials accused in the case are DMP's Wari Division Deputy Commissioner (DC) Iqbal Hossain, former IGP Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun, former Special Branch Chief Monirul Islam, former DMP Commissioner Habibur Rahman, former DB Chief Harun Or Rashid, Joint Police Commissioner Biplob Kumar Sarkar, Joint Commissioner SM Mehedi Hasan, Lalbagh Police Station Inspector (Operations) Atiqul Haque, Assistant Police Commissioner of Lalbagh Zone Nazrul Islam, Shahbagh Police Station Sub-Inspector Ashraful Sikder, and several DB officers.​

 

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Murder cases: Salman, Anisul, Dipu Moni placed on fresh remand

A Dhaka court today placed Salman F Rahman, private industry affairs adviser to former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former law minister Anisul Huq, former social welfare minister Dipu Moni, former chief whip ASM Feroz and former army officer Major General Ziaul Ahsan on different terms of...

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Murder cases: Salman, Anisul, Dipu Moni placed on fresh remand

Photo: Salman F Rahman, Anisul Huq and Dipu Moni

A Dhaka court today placed Salman F Rahman, private industry affairs adviser to former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former law minister Anisul Huq, former social welfare minister Dipu Moni, former chief whip ASM Feroz and former army officer Major General Ziaul Ahsan on different terms of remand for interrogation in four murder cases.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Jashim passed the orders in the cases, a sub-inspector working in the court told The Daily Star.

Salman, Anisul and Ziaul were placed on a fresh 10-day remand in two murder cases filed with New Market and Lalbagh police stations.

Dipu Moni was placed on a four-day remand in a case filed with Badda Police Station and Feroz was placed on a seven-day remand in a case filed Bhatara Police Station.​

 

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Justice Manik hospitalised with critical injuries

Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik, who was attacked and beaten by unruly people while being produced before a Sylhet court, has been admitted to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital with critical injuries

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Justice Manik hospitalised with critical injuries

Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik

Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik, who was attacked and beaten by unruly people while being produced before a Sylhet court, has been admitted to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital with critical injuries.

Manik, a retired judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, was sent to the hospital by the authorities of Sylhet Central Jail this evening, said Md Sagir Mia, deputy inspector general (DIG) prisons of Sylhet.

Earlier, agitated locals threw eggs and shoes at 75-year-old Manik and also beat him while he was brought to Sylhet court around 4:00pm yesterday (Saturday).

"He was bleeding internally from the beating. One of his testicles was raptured. As his condition was very critical, we rushed him to the hospital after he was handed over to the prison authority after being produced before the court," he said.

DIG Prisons said, "Police usually arrange treatment for critically injured detainees first and then hand over them to the jail authority. But in this case, they did not."

Justice Manik was detained by the BGB from the Dona area in Sylhet's Kanaighat Upazila on Friday night while he was trying to flee to India.

That night, he alleged that he was beaten by a group of people at the border after taking every possession he had. However, his treatment was not arranged.

On Saturday morning, he was handed over to Kanaighat Police Station and the police produced him before Sylhet Judicial Magistrate Court in the afternoon under section 54 of CrPC.

The court sent him to jail and instructed the jail authority to arrange for his treatment as per the jail code.​

 

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Former BCL secretary Panna dies while 'attempting to flee to India'

Former General Secretary of Bangladesh Chhatra League and member of the Pirojpur District Awami League, Ishaq Ali Khan Panna, has reportedly died after falling while climbing a mountain in Shillong, Meghalaya, during an attempt to flee to India. The incident occurred on Friday (August 23) at midni

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Former BCL secretary Panna dies while 'attempting to flee to India'
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Former General Secretary of Bangladesh Chhatra League and member of the Pirojpur District Awami League, Ishaq Ali Khan Panna, has reportedly died after falling while climbing a mountain in Shillong, Meghalaya, during an attempt to flee to India.

The incident occurred on Friday (August 23) at midnight.

After the fall of the Awami League government, Panna had planned to go into hiding and attempt to flee to India under the changed circumstances.

After crossing the border, he climbed a mountain in Shillong, Meghalaya, around midnight on Friday.

During his attempt to cross the mountain to the other side, he fell and suffered a heart attack. He died there, his family said.

His body has been kept in a police station on the Indian side of the Tamabil border in Sylhet, they added.

Some reports, however, claim that Panna was shot by the BSF while trying to cross the border. There were signs of gunshots and blood on his body.​

 

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Hasina made accused in 12 more cases

Former prime minister Sheikh Hasina was accused in 12 more cases filed in Dhaka and elsewhere yesterday.

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Hasina made accused in 12 more cases
10 filed over killings during protests, 1 over ex-BDR official’s death

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Former prime minister Sheikh Hasina was accused in 12 more cases filed in Dhaka and elsewhere yesterday.

Ten of these cases were filed over killings that took place during the recent student protest.

Besides, a case was filed over the death of a former official of the then Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) in 2010 while the father of a victim of enforced disappearance filed an abduction case.

Hasina is now facing 61 cases, including 51 for murder, seven for crimes against humanity and genocide, and two for abduction.

Former Awami League ministers Obaidul Quader, Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, Anisul Huq, and Jahangir Kabir Nanak, and former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun are among the accused in the cases.

Hasina, former army chief Aziz Ahmed, and 11 others were sued yesterday over the death of Abdur Rahim, the former deputy director of BDR in 2010.

Rahim, an accused in the BDR carnage case, died in jail on July 29 of that year.

Advocate Abdul Aziz, son of deceased Abdur Rahim, filed the case with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Akhtaruzzaman.

Mosharraf Hossain Kajol, the then public prosecutor of the BDR mutiny case, and former lawmakers Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh, Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim, Sheikh Helal, and Mirza Azam are among the accused in the case.

Hasina and 48 others were sued in a case filed over the death of university student Sheikh Ashabul Yamin at the Savar Bazar bus stand during the quota reform movement on July 18.

The victim's uncle, Abdullah Al Kabir, filed the case with a Dhaka court. In a viral video, Yamin, a student of the Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST), was seen being dropped on the road by the law enforcers from their armoured van. He was still alive at the time.

One Masud Rana filed a case with another Dhaka court against Hasina and 24 others over the death of his brother-in-law, Babu Mollah, in the Hatirjheel area on July 19.

Hasina and 21 others were sued over the death of Golam Nafiz, 17, at the Farmgate area of Tejgaon on August 1. Rafiqul Islam filed a case with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Nurul Huda Chowdhury.

Nasir Uddin filed a case with a Dhaka court against Hasina and 18 others over the death of shop employee Jasim Uddin, 35, in the Uttara Paschim area on July 18.

Upon separate hearings, the four magistrates recorded the statements of the complainants and asked the officer-in-charges (OC) of the police stations concerned to register the complaints as the First Information Report (FIR).

Yesterday, Rizia Begum, 36, filed a case with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Saddam Hossain against Hasina and 33 others over the death of his nephew journalist Mehedi Hasan near the Kazla Toll Plaza over Hanif Flyover in Jatrabari during quota protests on July 18.

Babul Mia, 42, also filed a case with the court of the same magistrate over the death of one Jisan against Hasina and 26 in Matuail on July 20, while Mamunur Rashid, 34, filed a case against Hasina and 27 others over the death of his brother-in-law Yusuf Mia Sanoar in Shani Akhra area on July 20.

Another case was filed against Hasina and 13 others over the death of Mahamudur Rahman Soikot, 19, in Mohammadpur on July 19.

Besides, 30-40 unnamed police officers and members were also accused.

In Narsingdi, Angur Mia, the brother-in-law of the slain Jaman Mia, filed a murder case against Hasina and two others with a local court.

The court directed the Madhabdi Police Station officer-in-charge to record it as an FIR.

Local Awami League leaders and activists, at the behest of the named accused, opened fire on a peaceful student protest on July 21. Jaman was shot while overseeing the protest and later succumbed to his injuries on July 25 at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

In Rangpur, a murder case has been filed against 150 individuals, including Hasina and her sister, Sheikh Rehana, with a local court over a clash between student protesters and law enforcement agencies during a student movement in Rangpur on July 19.

A shop worker, Momdel Hossain, who was forced to amputate his left leg from the knee, filed the case. The court asked Kotwali Police Station to record it as an FIR.

In Pirojpur court, Hasina and 13 others, including five Rab members, were sued in an abduction case filed by Babul Hawlader, father of Sunny Hawlader, who was a victim of enforced disappearance in 2013.

The then Rab director general Mokhlesur Rahman was among the accused.​