Dhaka
Cases have started being registered against Sheikh Hasina in Bangladesh. However, a case of murder of a grocery shopkeeper has been registered against her. In fact, on July 19, the police opened fire in Mohammadpur area of ​​​​Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.
According to the report of Dhaka Tribune, Mohammadpur grocery shop owner Abu Saeed was killed in the firing. Former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina has now been made an accused in this case. Apart from Sheikh Hasina, there are 6 other accused in this case.
Leader of Sheikh Hasina’s party is also accused
Apart from the former PM, Sheikh Hasina’s party Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader, former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun, former Detective Branch Chief Harunor Rashid, former DMP Police Commissioner Habibur Rahman along with former DMP Joint Commissioner Biplab Kumar Sarkar have also been made accused in the case.
Case against government officials too
Not only Sheikh Hasina and her party members, but several police officials and government officials are also accused in this murder case. The murder case has been filed by Mohammadpur resident Amir Hamza Shatil in the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury.
Firing was done on anti-reservation movement
This murder case is related to the protest against reservation in Bangladesh. Actually, on 19th July, a protest was being held against reservation in Bosila area of ​​Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka. During this time, the supporters of the protest were taking out a huge procession. The police opened fire on this procession, in which Abu Saeed was killed. In this case, many government officials including Sheikh Hasina have been made accused.
How did the movement start in Bangladesh?
Let us tell you that reservation in government jobs in Bangladesh was given to the families of those who played a role in the freedom struggle against Pakistan. Violent protests started there against this quota. Sheikh Hasina tried to stop this movement with both strategy and force, but both her efforts failed. Finally she accepted all the demands of the protesters, but the protesters insisted on her resignation. Accepting the demands of the protesters, Sheikh Hasina resigned and quietly came to India, since then she is in India.
More than 230 people have been killed in Bangladesh in incidents of violence that erupted across the country after the fall of the Hasina government on August 5, taking the death toll to 560 since anti-reservation protests began in mid-July. An interim government was formed after the fall of the Hasina-led government and its chief adviser, 84-year-old Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, last week announced the portfolios of his 16-member advisory council.
On Monday, seven political parties, including Awami League’s arch rival Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), met Yunus separately and said the interim government could take the necessary time to create a conducive atmosphere for holding free and fair elections, The Daily Star newspaper reported.
The report quoted BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir as saying that we have given this interim government the necessary time to create a proper environment to hold elections. He said that they did not discuss elections and the BNP did not mention any specific time frame for holding the next elections.
He said the BNP was extending its full support to all activities of the interim government. The party urged Yunus to withdraw all cases against its leaders, including party president Khaleda Zia and acting president Tariq Rahman, the report said, citing sources. After Hasina’s ouster, 79-year-old former prime minister Zia was released from jail. He was sentenced to 17 years in prison for corruption in 2018.