Murder case filed against Hasina, 53 others in B’baria

A murder case has been filed against 54 people, including former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and three former ministers, over the killing of Jahirul Islam in Brahmanbaria.

Victim’s brother Babul Mia, who is a resident of Suhilpur village in Sadar upazila of the district, filed the case with Brahmanbaria Sadar police station on Thursday (August 29).

Former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, former law minister Anisul Huq and former housing and public works minister RAM Obaidul Muktadir Chowdhury were among the accused.

According to the charge sheet, Awami League men had launched attacks on the activists of Hefazat-e-Islam during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bangladesh visit on 26 March, 2021. On that afternoon, Jahirul died in severely injured condition when AL men and law enforcers shot at the protesters in front of Bisic Industrial Zone at Nandanpur area in the Sadar upazila.