ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- A court in Bangladesh on Tuesday initiated a murder investigation into former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and six high-ranking officials from her administration.
The case centers on the police killing of a man during recent civil unrest in Dhaka.
Hasina, 76, fled to India by helicopter last week amid massive protests that marked the end of her prolonged and authoritarian rule.
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Lawyer Mamun Mia, who filed the case on behalf of a private citizen, reported that the Dhaka Metropolitan Court has directed the police to proceed with the murder investigation.
This marks the commencement of a formal criminal inquiry under Bangladeshi law.
The case includes Hasina’s former home minister, Asaduzzaman Khan, and Obaidul Quader, the general secretary of Hasina’s Awami League party.
It also names four former high-ranking police officials appointed during Hasina’s tenure, including former police inspector general Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun, as well as detective branch chief Harun-or-Rashid and senior Dhaka Metropolitan Police officers Habibur Rahman and Biplob Kumar Sarker.