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The magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury ordered police to investigate the case, Islam added.It was the first case filed against Hasina after a
violent uprising that killed about 300 people, many of them college and university students
League party, Obaidul Quader, the former interior minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, and senior police officials.Hamza alleged the grocer, Abu
Saeed, was killed on 19 July at about 4pm (10.00 GMT) when he was hit by a bullet while crossing the street in the Mohammadpur area of
Dhaka, as police fired on students and other people demonstrating against quotas in government jobs.The complainant blamed Hasina, who had
called for strong action to quell the violence, for the police firing
those responsible for the killings of students and others during the protests.In the statement, posted on X by her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy,
Police weaponry was the cause of most deaths during the protests, according to police and hospital figures collected by AFP.Hasina also
appealed to her supporters to observe a national holiday that she had declared for Thursday to mark the 1975 assassination of her father,
independence hero Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, during a military coup
student leader who was instrumental in overthrowing Hasina and is now part of the interim government, recently said that the former prime
minister must face trial for the killings during her term, including during the recent protests.And on Tuesday, the interim government, led
government jobs before spiralling into violent protests to oust Hasina
She plans to return home to Bangladesh when the caretaker government, headed by the Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus, decides on holding
elections, her son has said.Reuters, Agence-France Presse and Associated Press contributed to this report
This article first appeared/also appeared in theguardian.com
