Bangladesh: Former PM Sheikh Hasina, Several Others Indicted Over Alleged Irregularities | World News

DAKA: On Thursday, the courts of Bangladesh brought accusations against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, his son Sageeb Joy, Wazed Joy, daughter Saima Wazed Putul and Purbachal under the new Town project under the allegation of corruption. Following the hearing on the lawsuits filed by the country’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), Judge Mohammad Abdullah Al Mamun from the Dakka Special Judge Court-5 is framed in three cases. In addition, Judge Rabiul Alam of the Dakka Special Judge Court-4 accused them in the remaining three cases.

“The accusations accused in three cases have been framed. In one of these cases, 12 people, including Sheikh Hasina, and 17 people, including Sheikh Hasina and Sajeb at 17, were quoted, including Sheikh Hasina and Saima Wazed Putul,” 18 people, including the country’s leading Bengali daily stands.

The courts also issued an arrest warrant against them and was fixed to record the statements of prosecution witnesses on 13 August.

Bangladesh Awami League’s media cell on Wednesday, under the leadership of the country’s provisional government under the leadership of Muhammad Yunus “false legal lawsuits, mafia violence and political revenge” also reported a worrying increase.

The party emphasized the “collapse of the justice system” in the midst of “Tsunami of false cases” in Bangladesh since the fall of the Awami League government, which was democratically elected. At the beginning of this month, the Bangladesh International Criminal Court (Bit) sentenced Hasina to six months in prison for disrespect the court.

In addition, Shakil Akanda Bulbul, the leader of the student wing of the Awami League, was sentenced to two months in connection with the same case. In the local media, the three -member Court under the chairmanship of BİT President Justice Golam Mortuza Majumdar said that he had adopted the judiciary.

The prosecutor made the court accusations against Hasina and Chhahatra League leader on the basis of a viral audio clip on social media that put forward the former Prime Minister and showed that he had claimed that he had been allegedly and threatened the court.

Last month, Bit published a demonstration notification to Hasina, who left the country in August 2024 and disrespect the court case.

Analysts think of developments as a major political blood feud carried out by the Provisional Government ruled by Yunus, as a few lawsuits have been filed for the former Prime Minister and its supporters immediately after their post in August 2024.

Hasina, the daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founder of Bangladesh, the leading voice in the struggle to restore democracy in the country, had to escape from the country and take refuge in India.