Hasina, 243 others charged over killings during July uprising in Rajshahi

Police have pressed charges against the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 243 others in two cases filed over killing protesters during the July mass uprising in Rajshahi.

The investigating officers have found sufficient evidence of involvement of 244 people so far including, Sheikh Hasina, former minister Obaidul Quader, and Rajshahi city's former mayor Khairuzzaman Liton, in the killings.

Their names have been included in the chargesheets, said Md Gaziur Rahman, deputy commissioner of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP).

The Detective Branch (DB) of RMP has investigated the cases and recently submitted the charge sheets before courts, he told The Daily Star yesterday.

Contacted, RMP's Court Police Inspector Abdur Rafiq said a total of nine cases were filed with different police stations under RMP in connection with the violence during the July Uprising.

Two of them are murder cases and the others are different types of violence and attacks-related cases.

Over the last few days, police have submitted charge sheets in all the nine cases to the courts concerned, said Abdur Rafiq.

A total of 529 individuals have been charged in the nine cases. Of them, 244 are in the two murder cases and 285 are in the other cases, he informed.

On August 19 last year, a case filed with Boalia Model Police Station for killing an induvial Ali Raihan, 28. He suffered bullet injury on August 5 at Alupotti area and died three days later.

Another case was lodged on August 23 last year with Boalia Model Police Station for killing a university student Sakib Anjum during a rally on August 5 at the same area.