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Published : 27 Apr 2025, 09:35 PM
Deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 406 others, including an actor, journalists and lawyers, have been accused in a case over the death of a BNP activist in Mirpur during the Anti-discrimination Movement.
Former ministers and MPs from the Hasina government, two former mayors of Dhaka, businessmen, and election commissioners were named in the case. Actor Iresh Zaker has also been implicated.
Mostafizur Rahman Bappi, the brother of the victim Mahfuz Alam Shrabon, filed the case in the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Hasibuzzaman on Apr 20.
That day, the court ordered the Mirpur police chief to accept the complaint as a regular case after taking the statement of the plaintiff, Bappi said.
Sub-Inspector Rafiqul Islam of the court prosecution department of Mirpur police confirmed the matter on Sunday.
Among the accused are Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy, Awami League leader Amir Hossain Amu, Obaidul Quader, Asaduzzaman Khan, Salman F Rahman, Anisul Huq, Jahangir Kabir Nanak, Tajul Islam, Hasan Mahmud, Kamrul Islam, Muhammad Faruk Khan, Asaduzzaman Noor, Zahid Maleque.
Two former Anti-Corruption Commission prosecutors Khurshid Alam Khan and Mosharraf Hossain Kajol, former chief election commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad, Nurul Huda and Kazi Habibul Awal were also among the accused.
The case alleges that BNP activist Shrabon, 21, took part in the Anti-discrimination Student Movement at different times since it began.
Around 2:30pm on Aug 5, the accused ordered over 500 Awami League leaders and activists to ambush a peaceful procession that was passing through the road between Mirpur Shopping Complex and Mirpur Model Police Station, it added.
It also says that the aggressors shot stun grenades, tear shells, rubber bullets, fired using rifles, shotguns, pistols and exploded different sorts of improvised explosives.
Amid the chaos, Shrabon was wounded by the accused at that time, according to the case, and he was then taken to a hospital in Mirpur for treatment on a rickshaw.
The doctor later declared him dead.
