A case has been filed against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque, and three others in connection with the killing of Firoz Talukdar, an office assistant of a private company, who was shot dead by from a helicopter during the anti-discrimination student movement in Mirpur.
Firoz Talukdar’s wife, Reshma Sultana, filed the case on Wednesday in the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md. Mehedi Hasan.
The court recorded her statement and ordered the Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Mirpur Model Police Station to accept the case as an FIR.
The other accused in the case include former Road Transport and Bridges minister Obaidul Quader, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, and former inspector general of police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun.
According to the case statement, during the student-led anti-discrimination movement, law enforcement agencies with the order of the top government officials and other unnamed accomplices launched a crackdown on students and the public, using police, RAB, BGB, and some members of the then ruling party.
During the movement, on the evening of July 19, Firoz Talukdar was passing the Mirpur-10 area when he was shot by a bullet fired from a RAB helicopter. He was rushed to a nearby hospital, where the attending doctors declared him dead.