Former PM and others accused over actions of police who fired on protesters, killing shop owner crossing street
A court in Bangladesh has ordered an investigation into the former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s role in the death of a grocery shop owner in the capital, Dhaka, during last month’s student-led protests.
The case filed by Amir Hamza against Hasina and six others was accepted by Dhaka’s chief metropolitan magistrates court after a hearing, Hamza’s lawyer, Anwarul Islam, said. The magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury ordered police to investigate the case, Islam added.
It was the first case filed against Hasina after a violent uprising that killed about 300 people, many of them college and university students. She fled to India on 5 August and has been sheltering in Delhi.
The other accused in the case include the general secretary of Hasina’s Awami League party, Obaidul Quader, the former interior minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, and senior police officials.
