The second case was filed against Hasina
Another case against a 76-year-old Awami League leader was filed on wednesday (August 14), a day after bangladesh Prime minister Sheikh Hasina was ousted and others accused of murdering a militant leader in July. This case concerns the forced disappearance of a lawyer accused of kidnapping in 2015.
Several other people, including former ministers in Hasina's cabinet, were also named in the latest case. The Daily Star reports that the victim, Sahl Rana, a supreme court lawyer, filed the case. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate farzana Shakila Somo Chowdhury ordered that the charges be accepted as a case. Other accused in this case are chief cabinet minister, former interior minister Asdoozman Khan, former law minister Anisul Haq, former IGP shahid Al-Haq, former director General of Rapid Action Battalion Benazir ahmed and 25 army members were not identified.
“On february 10, 2015, I was arrested from Ward 5 in Uttara and forced into a car. According to Rana, as soon as I got into the car, I felt an electric shock to my ears and genitals. "After enduring various cruel tortures over time, I was released in august in Godagari, Rajshahi," he said.
In the latest news of attacks on religious minorities, a house belonging to an unrelated Hindu family was set ablaze in western bangladesh on wednesday (14 August). The incident in Farabari Mandirpara village in Akcha union under Thakurgaon Sadar upazila took place late on tuesday (August 13), hours after new interim leader Muhammad Yunus assured the distressed minority community that his government will punish the perpetrators.
Unidentified persons set fire to Kaleshwar Barman’s house, Subrata Kumar Barman, chairman of Akcha Union Parishad (UP), told The Daily Star newspaper. local residents quickly responded and managed to control the fire, and the house’s occupants were able to escape unharmed, he said.
He further said Kaleshwar Barman had no political affiliation. ABM Firoz Waheed, officer-in-charge of Thakurgaon police station, said: “Police visited the spot the same night, and an investigation is ongoing to identify the perpetrators.”
The newspaper report said a similar incident took place a few days earlier in Nimbari Kamarpara village when Ananta Barman’s house was burned down, leaving all valuables destroyed. Robin Roy, a resident of Farabri, said people of the Hindu community were living in fear.
Thakurgan area is where many Hindus tried to cross into india on august 6 and 7, along the Indo-Bangladesh data-border in the north-west.
The fire incident also came on the same day that the bangladesh Hindu Grand National Alliance said the minority community had data-faced attacks and threats in 278 places in 48 districts since the fall of Hasina's government in august 5, it was called an "attack". About the Hindu religion.