A murder case has been filed against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 12 others over the death of Sub-Assistant Director and Freedom Fighter Md Abdur Rahim, an accused in the case of the 2009 massacre at the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) headquarters in Pilkhana.
Additionally, 200 other unidentified individuals were also named as defendants.
Advocate Abdul Aziz, son of the deceased Abdur Rahim, filed an application to register a case in court on Sunday.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Akhtaruzzaman recorded the plaintiff's statement and ordered the case to be registered, plaintiff's lawyer Md Delwar Hossain confirmed.
He said: “Abdur Rahim, who was arrested in the BDR mutiny case, died in Dhaka Central Jail on July 29, 2010. He was killed in a planned manner. At that time, an unnatural death case was filed at the Chawkbazar police station regarding the incident. After our case application, the court ordered the records of that unnatural death case to be called and directed the registration of today's application."
The complaint alleged that Sheikh Hasina, the leader of the 14-party alliance including the Bangladesh Awami League, planned the killings of 74 people, including 57 army officers, at the then BDR headquarters in Pilkhana on February 25 and 26, 2009, by hiring foreign agents.
Subsequently, a murder case was filed at Chawkbazar police station accusing them of the BDR mutiny.
The complaint further states that the plaintiff's father, Abdur Rahim, was working in Pilkhana as a DAD.
He was also arrested as an accused in the BDR mutiny case and was killed by injection on July 29, 2010.
