A case was filed on Sunday against 36 people including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina over the killing of Dhaka Times reporter Mehedi Hasan while covering the anti-discrimination student movement in the capital’s Jatrabari area.
The other prominent accused in the case are - Obaidul Quader, Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, Anisul Huq, Rashed Khan Menon, Hasanul Huq Inu, Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun, Habibur Rahman, Harun-Ur Rashid and Biplab Kumar Sarker, reports BSS.
Mehdi's father Mosharraf Hossain filed the complaint with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shahin Reza. The court after recording the statement of the complainant, asked Jatrabari Police Station to file the matter as a first information report (FIR).
Mehedi was shot and killed near Mayor Mohammad Hanif Flyover in the Kazla area of Jatrabari on July 18 evening. He was on duty to cover the anti-discrimination student movement in the area.
Hasina sued in Ctg court for threatening Dr Yunus and Khaleda Zia.
A case was filed against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina for threatening the Chief Adviser of the interim government Dr Yunus and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia in a Chattogram court on Sunday.
Sourabh Priya Pal, former vice president of Chattogram Mahanagar Chhatra Dal filed the case before the court of Chattogram Metropolitan Magistrate Jewel Deb as the ex-prime minister threatened them to be thrown and dipped into the Padma Bridge.
Plaintiff's lawyer Advocate Rezaul Islam, said the court took cognizance of the case and ordered the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to probe the charges.
The court directed to submit a report within thirty days after investigating the case by an Additional Superintendent of Police or an officer equivalent to the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police.
Plaintiff Sourabh Priya Pal said Sheikh Hasina had publicly threatened them to be thrown and dipped into the water of Padma River and instigated the terrorists of her party to kill Begum Zia.
The then prime minister Sheikh Hasina in a speech on the inauguration of the Padma Bridge on May 18, 2022, had said that BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia should be 'thrown' from the bridge.
In the same speech, she also said Yunus should be dipped into the water of Padma River.
