Bangladesh Crisis: Murder Case Filed Against Ousted PM Sheikh Hasina

Dhaka: Amid the swearing in of the new interim authorities and the ongoing energy tussle in Bangladesh, a murder case has been filed in the direction of Bangladesh’s ousted precise minister Sheikh Hasina and six others over the death of a grocery retailer owner at some aspect of ultimate month’s violent clashes that led to the fall of her authorities

The case change into the most to be filed in the direction of Hasina, 76, after she resigned and fled to India final week following great protests in the direction of her Awami League-led authorities over a controversial job quota gear.

The case change into filed by utilising an important-wisher of the grocery retailer owner Abu Sayed, who change into killed on July 19 in police firing at some aspect of a procession in help of the quota reform motion in Mohammadpur, the Dhaka Tribune newspaper pronounced.

The distinct accused are Awami League Fundamental Secretary Obaidul Quader, former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, and former Inspector Fundamental of Police Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun, amongst others.

Furthermore, varied unnamed excessive-ranking police officers and authorities officers had been also accused inner the case, in accordance with the document.

Over 230 Persons Killed In Bangladesh

Over 230 persons had been killed in Bangladesh inner the incidents of violence that erupted within the direction of the u.s. following the fall of the Hasina authorities on August 5, taking the death toll to 560 for the intent that anti-quota protests first all began in mid-July.

An interim authorities change into formed after the fall of the Hasina-led authorities, and its Chief Adviser, 84-12 months-historical Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, launched the portfolios of his sixteen-member council of advisors final week.

On Monday, seven political parties, together with the Awami League’s arch-rival Bangladesh Nationalist Birthday get together (BNP), met Yunus one by utilising one and talked about the interim authorities may make an effort very obligatory to create a conducive atmosphere for holding free and honest elections, The Day after day Superstar newspaper pronounced.

“We've given this interim authorities the time required to create a true atmosphere for holding an election,” the document quoted BNP Secretary Fundamental Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir as asserting. He talked about they did now not discuss the election and that the BNP did now not mention any explicit time length for holding the following election. The BNP change into extending its full help to every of the activities of the interim authorities, he talked about.

Quoting sources, the document talked about that the social gathering urged the Yunus to have every of the situations in the direction of its leaders, together with these in the direction of social gathering chairperson Khaleda Zia and performing chairman Tarique Rahman, withdrawn.

Former precise minister Zia, 79, change into released from detention midsection after Hasina’s ouster. She change into sentenced to 17 years in detention midsection for graft in 2018.

(With inputs from businesses)