Staff Reporter:
Two separate cases were filed yesterday against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal over the killings of one Liton Hasan Lalu alias Hasan in the capital’s Mirpur area and one Tarik Hossain in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area during the recent anti-discrimination students’ movement.
Among the cases, Liton Hasan’s brother Milon filed a case against 148 including the former prime minis-ter with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mehedi Hasan.
The other prominent accused in the case are former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, former members of parliament Mainul Hossain Nikhil, Ilias Mollah, Kamal Ahmed Mazumder, former inspector general of police (IGP) Abdullah Al Mamun, former DMP commissioner Habibur Rahman, former DIG Harun-Ur Rashid, and former additional joint commissioner Biplob Kumar Sarker.
Meanwhile, victim Tarik Hossain’s mother Fidushi Khatun filed the other case against 13 including for-mer prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader and for-mer home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, former foreign minister Hasan Mahmud and state minis-ter for Information and Broadcasting Mohammad Ali Arafat.
According to the case documents, victim Hasan joined a peaceful procession in Mirpur area on August 4 as part of anti-discrimination students’ movement. At around 2pm, men of then ruling party started fir-ing at the procession indiscriminately, injuring Hasan. Later, he succumbed to his injuries at Agargaon Neuroscience Hospital.
Tarik was shot by unidentified miscreants in front of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station on August 5 and succumbed to his injuries on August 9 at Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital.
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