SHERPUR, Aug 17: Three former lawmakers of Sherpur have been sued in separate cases filed over murders of two students during the quota reform movement on August 4, and an attack on a rice mills, owned by BNP leader.
The two former lawmakers, Chanuar Hossain Chanu of Sherpur-1 Constituency and former MP ADM Shahidul Islam of Sherpur-3 Constituency were accused in the murder cases.
Officer-in-Charge of Sherpur Sadar Police Station Md Jahangir Alam said the families of Mahbub Rana, a second-year student at Sherpur Govt College, who was run over by a government vehicle, and Sobuj, an HSC examinee at Sreebordi Govt College, who was shot dead during the student movement, filed the cases.
A total of 25 activists of the Awami League and its affiliated organizations and 300 to 400 other unidentified individuals were implicated in the cases.
Meanwhile, a separate case was filed over the attack, vandalism, and theft in Roseberg Auto Rice Mills, owned by district BNP General Secretary Md Hazrat Ali, during the protest.
The case was filed by Md Alamgir Hossain, an employee of the mills, on August 15 accusing former lawmaker Chanuar Hossain Chanu, Fatema Tuz Zahura Shamoli-former reserved seat MP and president of the district Juba Mahila League-former Awami League whip and district president Md Atiur Rahman Atique, along with over 55 unnamed individuals.
