A case has been filed in a Dhaka court against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and 408 others over the killing of a BNP activist during the anti-discrimination student movement in the capital’s Mirpur area.
The case names former MPs and ministers of Awami League government, former mayors of Dhaka, journalists, businessmen, election commissioners, lawyers, and various other individuals.
According to court sources on Sunday, (April 27) Mostafizur Rahman Bappy, the brother of the deceased, applied to the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court on April 20 to file the case.
On the same day, the court recorded his statement and instructed Mirpur Model Police Station officer-in-charge to register the complaint.
The plaintiff stated that his younger brother, Mahfuz Alam Shrabon, 21, was an activist of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). Shrabon had been working at Renata Company for approximately six months.
Since the beginning of the anti-discrimination student movement, Shrabon had actively participated by joining protests and chanting slogans in support of the students.
On the day of the incident, August 5, at around 2:30 PM, during a march organized by students and public aimed at the final downfall of the then-government, the procession was passing through the road between Mirpur Shopping Complex and Mirpur Model Police Station.
At that time, following instructions of the accused individuals, over five hundred party activists launched a sudden attack on the peaceful demonstrators with intention to kill. They fired sound grenades, tear gas shells, rubber bullets, rifles, shotguns, and pistols, and detonated cocktails and hand bombs.
As a result of the organized gunfire, Shrabon was shot in left side of his chest, with the bullet exiting through the right side of his waist.
He immediately collapsed, bleeding profusely, in front of the main gate of Mirpur Model Police Station. Many others, along with Shrabon, were injured by the accused's gunfire at the scene.
The students and public present rushed Shrabon to a nearby hospital in Mirpur, where doctors declared him dead upon arrival.
