Sheikh Hasina, a former prime minister of Bangladesh, is the subject of a murder investigation into the police killing of a person during civil upheaval.
Following months of dangerous unrest in Dhaka, six other top officials from the previous government are also being looked into.
A private citizen’s attorney, Mamun Mia, claimed that the judge in Dhaka had ordered police to take the “murder case against the accused individuals.”
This is the first move in a legal case under Bangladeshi laws.
Ms. Hasina left the country earlier this month, fleeing to neighboring India, as demand for her to step over grew.
In days of undergraduate demonstrations, demands against Ms. Hasina surpassed 400 people. Many of them were shot by the police, on her commands.
A local supermarket Abu Saeed was shot in the head while crossing the road, so business Amir Hamza applied to bring the crime event in July.
He told a judge that on 19 July, pupils were holding a quiet opposition, alleging authorities had fired blindly on the audience, according to BBC Bangla.
Mr. Hamza claimed he was certainly related to Mr. Saeed but that he had spoken to the judge because the grocer’s home did not have the funds to bring the case.
” I am the first regular person to stand up for Sheikh Hasina in court to defend her atrocities.” I will see the event to an conclusion”, he told Reuters news organization.
The event, which was the first one brought against Ms. Hasina since the protests began, was ordered by Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury to appoint the officers to do so.
Among those under investigation is former chancellor of travel and bridges, Obaidul Quader.
Ms Hasina’s authorities, which was in power for 15 years, was accused of common human rights violations and dogged by allegations of rife corruption.
The student protests started in early July as quiet protests against the government’s restrictions for civil service positions.
Ms. Hasina urged the officers to “resist brutally against the protestors,” referring to them as “terrorists who are out to destabilize the country.”
Nobel Peace prize Muhammad Yunus is the head of the newly formed new government, which includes many of the protest.
Ms Hasina will return to the country when elections are declared, her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy has said.