Three murder cases have been filed against 80 people including former prime minister Sheikh Hasina.

Tofazzal Hossain, additional chief metropolitan magistrate of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate's (CMM) court, recorded the plaintiff's statement and ordered Khilgaon police station to register the cases on Wednesday.

Another complaint was directed to be accepted as a formal charge by Senior Judicial Magistrate Mostafizur Rahman at Ashulia police station.

Sheikh Hasina was made the main accused in the cases.

A case was filed against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and 21 others in connection with the death of City University student Md Sajjad Hossain Sajal in Ashulia during the student-ld mass movement on August 5.

Sajal's elder brother Mijanur Rahman filed a case with Dhaka Senior Judicial Magistrate Mostafizur Rahman's court.

Other accused in the case are- former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, former Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader, former Awami League lawmaker Saiful Islam, former Inspector General of Police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun, former DB chief Harun Or Rashid, former DMP commissioner Habibur Rahman and former DMP joint commissioner Biplab Kumar Sarker.

According to the case statement, hundreds of students brought out a procession in Baipail area on August 5 in support of anti-discrimination student movement. Police with the aim to control the movement, fired on the procession and detained many students.

Sajal, B.Sc (Textile) second semester student of City University, was detained from the procession and subsequently was shot dead inside the police station.

Later, police put Sajal's body alongside the bodies of some other students in a leguna and set it on fire by pouring petrol on it, reads the statement.

In another incident, a grocery shop owner Mizanur Rahman was shot and killed in the Banasree area of Dhaka during the anti-discrimination student movement.

The case was filed following the complaint lodged by the victim’s father Kamal Hossain at Khilgaon police station against Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana, her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy, her daughter Saima Wazed Putul, and 31 others.

According to the statement, on July 19, around 3pm, during the anti-discrimination student movement in Banasree, Mizanur Rahman was shot in the leg. He was later taken to the Pangu Hospital but died at around 5:40pm due to excessive bleeding.

Another case was filed with Khilgaon police station against 27 individuals including Sheikh Hasina in connection with the death of 14-year-old Ashikul Islam during the student movement.

The victim’s mother Arisha Afruz filed the case.

Ashikul was shot dead in the capital’s Banasree area on July 19.