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Sheikh Hasina’s Legal Struggles Intensify: Five New Murder Cases Filed, Bringing Total to 49

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Dhaka: Five more murder cases have been filed against deposed Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, her former cabinet members and top police officials, taking the number of cases against her to 49. Sheikh Hasina resigned from her post and fled to India in a military helicopter on August 5 amid growing pressure from the anti-quota protestors and the country’s army.

The fresh cases were filed on Thursday. Of the five cases, three were filed in Dhaka while two cases were registered in Narsingdi and Bogura. Sheikh Hasina, chairperson of Awami League, now faces at least 49 cases, including 40 for murders, seven for crimes against humanity and genocide, one for abduction and one for an attack on a Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) procession.

Muhammad Yunus-led interim government has also revoked Hasina’s passport. Ministry of Home Affairs has issued a notification directing Sheikh Hasina, along with advisers, former cabinet members and all members of the recently dissolved National Parliament, to surrender their diplomatic passports.

The decision came on the same day when a United Nations team arrived in Dhaka to assess whether to investigate alleged human rights violations in Bangladesh or not.

Further, Bangladesh’s main opposition party BNP has urged India to extradite Hasina to face trial in the country. “Bangladesh & India have extradition treaty and must hand over people against whom court case is on,” BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said in Dhaka after paying tribute to the party’s founder president Ziaur Rahman.

Over 230 people were killed in Bangladesh in the incidents of violence that erupted across the country following the fall of the Hasina government, taking the death toll to more than 600 since the massive protest by students against a controversial quota system in government jobs first started in mid-July.

Source: msn

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