Court Correspondent

Another murder case has been was filed against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 15 others over the death of a 12-year-old schoolboy in Mohammadpur during the quota protests on 19 July.

Abdullah Abu Sayeed Bhuiyan, a resident of Tejgaon, on Thursday filed the case with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury over the death of schoolboy Jobayed Hossain Imon in police firing in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur.

This is the fifth case, and the third murder case, lodged against Hasina after she resigned and went to India amid a mass upsurge on 5 August.

The other accused are Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader, former ministers — Asaduzzaman Khan, Anisul Huq, Tajul Islam, Jahangir Kabir Nanak, Hasan Mahmud and Mohammad A Arafat –, former private industry affairs adviser to former prime minister Salman F Rahman and former lawmaker Mostofa Jalal Mohiuddin, former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun, Rab’s former DG Harun Or Rashid, former DMP commissioner Habibur Rahman, former Additional IGP Kh Mahid Uddin, former DB (DMP) chief Harun Or Rashid and former DMP joint commissioner Biplob Kumar Sarker.