DHAKA, Aug 18, 2024 (BSS) - An application has been made for lodging a case 
against Sheikh Hasina and 33 others for mass-killing at the rally of Hefazat-
e-Islam Bangladesh in Motijheel Shapla Chattar area on May 05, 2013.

Bangladesh Peoples Party (BPP) Chairman Babul Sardar Chakhari filed the 
application at Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Zaki-al Farabi's court. 

The Magistrate accepted the plaintiff's statement and directed the Officer-
in-Charge (OC) of Motijheel Thana to investigate the matter and submit the 
report. 

The other notable accused in the case are-- former Home Minister Asaduzzaman 
Khan Kamal, former Prime Minister's Advisor Salman F Rahman, Defense Ministry 
Military Advisor Tarek Siddiqui, former Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) 
Mayor Fazle Noor Taposh, former lawmakers Rashed Khan Menon and Hasanul Haque 
Inu, Awami League Joint Secretary General Mahbubul Alam Hanif, former 
Textiles Minister Jahangir Kabir Nanak, former Inspector General of Police 
(IGP) Benazir Ahmed and IGP Hasan Mahabub Khandkar, former RAB Chief AKM 
Shahidul Haque, former NSI Chief Ziaul Hasan, former DC Motijheel Division 
Biplab Kumar Sarker, former Motijheel Police Station OC Omar Faruk, former 
Ward Councilor Munsur Ahmed, the then Motijheel Police Station Chhatra League 
President Mahabubul Haque Hiron, Awami League leader Mumtaz Parveen, former 
Motijheel Police Station OC Farman Ali, National People's Party Chairman 
Salahuddin Salu, former Motijheel DC Nazmul Alam, retired Director of Hamdard 
Group Major Iqbal etc.

The application stated that leaders, members and workers of Hefazat-e Islam 
Bangladesh took position at the Motijheel Shapla Chattar road with 13-point 
demand to the then government on May 5, 2013. 

Within the next 24 hour from 11pm on the day, the police and army members, 
with the connivance of the accused, massacred the protesters, innocent 
madrasa students and passers-by, it said.

They also took the bodies through some city-corporation vehicles and buried 
those secretly in unknown locations, the application added.

In the complaint, the plaintiff also mentioned that during this time, many 
madrasa students were murdered and abducted. When their parents went to the 
concerned police stations to file a case or General Diary (GD), the 
authorities did not take any case in this regard.