A writ was filed with the High Court on Wednesday seeking its directive for judicial inquiry into killing of children during the violence over the recent quota reform protests.
According to the writ, Abdul Ahad,4, Riya Gop, 6, Shafqat Samir, 11, and Naima Akhtar Sultana, 15 were shot dead in different parts of the country during the violence. Supreme Court lawyer Advocate Taimur Alam Khandkar filed the writ petition with the related branch of the High Court seeking its directive in this regard.
The writ petition also sought HC directive from the government for compensating the families of each deceased with Tk 1 crore for the time being.
After filing the petition, the lawyer told reporters that he would move with the petition before a High Court bench for hearing within very short time.
The Cabinet Secretary, Home Secretary and the related officials have been made respondents in the petition.
On July 19, child Ahad was shot in a house in Rayerbagh area of Jatrabari in the capital during the agitation. Ahad was standing on the balcony of their house. A bullet pierced his right eye and lodged inside his head. Ahad's father Abul Hasan, hailed from Pukhuria village in Faridpur's Bhanga upazila, is a senior assistant in the Income Tax Department. On the same day, Riya Gop was shot in the head while playing on the roof of a house in Nayamati area of Narayanganj. She later died under treatment.
Meanwhile, Safkat Samir, 11, and his uncle Moshiur Rahman, 16, were studying sitting at the table next to the window in the Mirpur-14 housing staff quarters. At that time, a bullet pierced Moshiur's right shoulder and Samir's right eye and exited from the back of his head. When Samir was taken to hospital, the on-duty doctor declared him dead there.
