The police have submitted a charge sheet against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 25 others in the case filed over the killing of 24-year-old Abuzar Sheikh in the capital’s Gulshan area during the 2024 July mass uprising.

Sub-inspector Israil Hossain of the Anti-Terrorism Unit of the police submitted the charge sheet to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Dhaka on February 18.

Confirming the submission of the charge sheet, Gulshan police station’s general recording officer SI Md Moktar Hossain on Friday said that the charge sheet  would be presented before the court tomorrow for the next course of action.’

Moktar also said that the issuance of arrest warrants for the accused in the case would also be sought.

The other prominent accused include former road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader, also Awami League general secretary, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, former textiles and jute minister Jahangir Kabir Nanak, former state minister for information and broadcasting

Mohammad A Arafat, former MP Mirza Azam and former Appellate Division justice Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik.

Local AL leaders and activists allegedly opened fire on a procession of students and public in the evening of July 19, 2024 in front of the Baridhara General Hospital on Pragati Sarani in the capital.

Abuzar received bullet injury and was first taken to Evercare Hospital before being transferred to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital where he died on July 27.

On November 16, 2024, the victim’s mother Chhobi Khatun filed a murder case with the Gulshan police station over the incident.

Several charge sheets, including murders and crimes against humanity, were pressed against Hasina and others in the International Crimes Tribunal.

On November 6, the police submitted a charge sheet to the Sirajganj Chief Judicial Magistrate Court over the killing of three Bangladesh Nationalist Party activists during the 2024 uprising.

In the final week of October, Savar model thana police submitted a charge sheet in Dhaka Chief Judicial Magistrate Court  against 114 people, including Sheikh Hasina, Obaidul Quader, Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, Enamur Rahman, and Qamrul Islam, as accused in the case filed over the brutal killing of fish trader Nabi Nur Morol.

The Awami League-led authoritarian government was ousted on August 5, 2024 amid a student-led mass uprising, when prime minister and AL president Sheikh Hasina fled to India and took shelter there.