BDR mutiny: Murder case filed against Sheikh Hasina, 10 others

A murder case has been filed against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and 10 others in connection with the death of Sub-Assistant Director and Freedom Fighter Md Abdur Rahim, an accused in the case of the 2009 massacre at the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) headquarters in Pilkhana.

Besides, 200 other unidentified individuals were also made accused in the case.

Advocate Abdul Aziz, son of the deceased Abdur Rahim, filed the case with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Akhtaruzzaman on Sunday (August 25).

The court later recorded the plaintiff’s statement and ordered the case to be registered.

Other accused in the case include former Director General of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and former Army Chief General Aziz Ahmed, and Mosharraf Hossain Kajol, and the lawyer for the Pilkhana mutiny case.

The complaint alleged that Sheikh Hasina, the leader of the 14-party alliance including the Bangladesh Awami League, planned the killings of 74 people, including 57 army officers, at the then BDR headquarters in Pilkhana on February 25 and 26, 2009, by hiring foreign agents.

Subsequently, a murder case was filed at Chawkbazar police station against them.

The complaint further stated that the plaintiff's father, Abdur Rahim, was working in Pilkhana as a DAD.

He was also arrested as an accused in the BDR mutiny case and was killed by injection on July 29, 2010.