Four shot dead in Bogra: Case against magistrate dismissed
Other accused include presiding officer, upazila secondary education officer
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Nazmul Huda Nasim, Bogra
Publish : 13 Jan 2022, 09:33 PMUpdate : 13 Jan 2022, 09:33 PM
A court in Bogra on Thursday dismissed a case filed against an executive magistrate and seven others over the death of four people during the post-polls violence in Baliadighi.
Ashadul Sakider, the brother of one of the deceased, had filed the case with the court of Senior Judicial Magistrate Asma Mahmud.
Sakider said that they would move the higher court over the matter.
Shahjahanpur UNO and Baliadighi Executive Magistrate Asif Ahmed and Presiding Officer Zakir Hossain and the upazila secondary education officer are among the accused.
According to the case, four people – housewife Kulsum Akhter, vegetable trader Abdur Rashid, rickshaw puller Alamgir Hossain and farmer Khorshed Ali – were shot dead during the violence on January 5.
More than 300 unidentified men and women vandalized the polling booths during the counting. When the situation got out of control, BGB members fired 31 rounds in the direction of the on-duty magistrate who allegedly refused to count the votes after the polls were over.
The villagers tried to stop them and at one point vandalised the polling centre when law enforcers attacked them.
On January 7, Presiding Officer Zakir Hossain filed a case against 300 villagers, bringing charges of assault, vandalism, attempted snatching of ballot papers and creating obstruction to government work against them.
Meanwhile, locals have demanded that the magistrate be punished in connection with the deaths, alleging that he had ordered gunshots on the ruling party supporters to favor the BNP-backed candidate.
Four shot dead in Bogra: Case against magistrate dismissed
Other accused include presiding officer, upazila secondary education officer
A court in Bogra on Thursday dismissed a case filed against an executive magistrate and seven others over the death of four people during the post-polls violence in Baliadighi.
Ashadul Sakider, the brother of one of the deceased, had filed the case with the court of Senior Judicial Magistrate Asma Mahmud.
Sakider said that they would move the higher court over the matter.
Shahjahanpur UNO and Baliadighi Executive Magistrate Asif Ahmed and Presiding Officer Zakir Hossain and the upazila secondary education officer are among the accused.
According to the case, four people – housewife Kulsum Akhter, vegetable trader Abdur Rashid, rickshaw puller Alamgir Hossain and farmer Khorshed Ali – were shot dead during the violence on January 5.
More than 300 unidentified men and women vandalized the polling booths during the counting. When the situation got out of control, BGB members fired 31 rounds in the direction of the on-duty magistrate who allegedly refused to count the votes after the polls were over.
The villagers tried to stop them and at one point vandalised the polling centre when law enforcers attacked them.
On January 7, Presiding Officer Zakir Hossain filed a case against 300 villagers, bringing charges of assault, vandalism, attempted snatching of ballot papers and creating obstruction to government work against them.
Meanwhile, locals have demanded that the magistrate be punished in connection with the deaths, alleging that he had ordered gunshots on the ruling party supporters to favor the BNP-backed candidate.