DHAKA, Aug 14, 2024 (BSS) - A case has been filed against former Prime
Minister Sheikh Hasina, former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan and 29 others
for abducting a lawyer from Uttara in the capital in 2015.

The victim, Supreme Court lawyer Sohel Rana, made an application in the court
of Metropolitan Magistrate Farzana Shakila Sumu Chowdhury today.

The court accepted the statement of the plaintiff and directed the Uttara
West Police Station to register the complaint as a First Information Report
(FIR).

The other accused in the case are-- former Law Minister Anisul Haque, former
IGP Shahidul Haque, former RAB DG Benazir Ahmed and 25 unidentified members
of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB).

According to the complaint of the case, unidentified people forcibly
kidnapped the plaintiff by asking him to get inside a car at Road No. 1 of
Uttara sector 5 on February 10, 2015.

His wallet, phone and other belongings were snatched and he was taken to an
undisclosed location and tortured brutally, it added.

In the complaint, the plaintiff could not file the case due to the death
threats given by some of the heads of the former government and high-ranking
officials.