Two more cases filed against Sheikh Hasina over killings during student movement

Former prime minister Sheikh Hasina has been sued in two more murder cases over deaths during the student protests in Mirpur area of the capital.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mehedi Hasan instructed the officer-in-charge of Mirpur Model Police Station to officially record the new complaints as first information reports (FIRs) on Monday.

The first case, accused Sheikh Hasina and 148 others of the murder of class nine student Liton Hasan on August 4. According to the complaint filed by the victim‍‍`s elder brother, Md. Milon, Liton was shot during the protests at Mirpur-10. He succumbed to his injuries on August 7 at Agargaon‍‍`s Neuroscience Hospital.

The second case was filed by Afsana Akhtar, widow of Abdullah Kabir, BNP’s Mirpur Ward-11 unit vice-president. The complaint alleges that Kabir was shot dead on August 4 while assisting student protesters. It claims that Sheikh Hasina, along with other accused including former road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, and several police officials, directed a violent crackdown on the demonstrators.

Both cases allege that the violence was orchestrated under the direction of Hasina and involved numerous high-ranking officials and members of various political and law enforcement groups. The complaint details that Abdullah Kabir was shot in the chest and he was declared dead at Kurmitola General Hospital.