Former Bangladeshi PM Reportedly Related To The Murder Case Of A Shop Owner Related To Police Shooting

Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina/PHOTO via Wikimedia Commons/DelwarHossain

JAKARTA - Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was reported in a murder case lawsuit filed on Tuesday in connection with the murder of a grocery store owner in a police shooting incident on July 19.

This is the first case of Hasina's murder, which fled to neighboring India on August 5.

Reported by ANTARA from Anadolu, Tuesday, August 13, the case was filed by Amir Hamza Shatil, a resident of the Mohammadpur neighborhood in the capital Dhaka, at the Metropolitan Dhaka Court

Hasina, along with six other people, was accused of killing the owner of the Abu Sayeed grocery store, who died during a police shooting in the Mohammadpur area on July 19.

The plaintiff stated that he and the victim had no close relationship and the case was filed voluntarily.

The case submission comes at the same time as students staged a protest in Dhaka, demanding that the transitional government bring Hasina back to Bangladesh and try her for the deaths of hundreds of people in a recent student-led protest.

Hasina fled to India after weeks of anti-government protests resulting in at least 580 deaths since July 16, including 326 killings between August 4 and 6.

Nobel Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus (84), was sworn in on Thursday (8/8) to lead a 17-member transitional government in Bangladesh.

Apart from Hasina, the lawsuit also lists the names of former Secretary-General of the Awami League Party Obaidul Quader, former Bangladeshi Interior Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, former Police Inspector General Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun, former senior police official from Detective Branch Harun Or Rashid, former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dhaka Habibur Rahman, and former Joint Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Biplob Kumar Sarker.

Some of the unnamed individuals and police officers were also included in the case.

The lawsuit states that students were conducting a peaceful march in the Basila area of Mohammadpur on July 19 when police opened fire on all directions. The owner of a local grocery store, Abu Saeed, was shot in the head while crossing the street and died at the scene.

The plaintiff also claimed former Prime Minister Hasina repeatedly ordered a crackdown on the Bangladeshi civil servant quota reform movement.