Staff Reporter:
A case was filed against 98 persons including deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in a case on charges of attempting murder of a BNP activist.
The victim, Mushfiqur Rahman Abir, filed the case with the court of Dhaka Additional Chief Metropoli-tan Magistrate Zakir Hossain yesterday.
The court asked the Paltan Police Station to accept the case.
Other accused in the case are former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, former information and broadcasting minister Dr Hasan Mahmud, former mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh, former lawmaker of Dhaka-10 constituency Shafiul Islam, former head of the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Mohammad Harun Or Rashid and for-mer Joint Commissioner of DMP Biplob Kumar Sarkar.
The next day, the plaintiff was produced before the court with a remand prayer. But the court rejected the remand petition considering all the circumstances and sent him to the prison.
Later, the plaintiff was released on bail after spending 22 long days in jail.
