A murder case has been filed against 13 people including former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former army chief Aziz Ahmed over the death of freedom fighter and deputy assistant director of BDR, Md Abdur Rahim, an accused in the case of the 2009 massacre at the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) headquarters in Dhaka’s Pilkhana, reports UNB.

Advocate Abdul Aziz, son of the deceased Abdur Rahim, filed an application to register a case in the court on Sunday.

Besides, 200 unnamed individuals were made accused in the case.

Former army chief Aziz Ahmed has been named as the main accused in the case while Sheikh Hasina is the number four accused.

According to the case statement, Sheikh Hasina, the leader of the 14-Party Alliance including the Bangladesh Awami League, had killed 74 people, including 57 army officers, in a well-planned manner at the then BDR headquarters in Pilkhana on February 25 and 26, 2009, by hiring foreign agents.

Subsequently, a murder case was filed at Chawkbazar police station accusing them of the BDR mutiny.

The statement further stated that the plaintiff's father, Abdur Rahim, was working in Pilkhana as a DAD.

He was also arrested as an accused in the BDR mutiny case and was executed on July 29, 2010.

Bd-pratidin English/Tanvir Raihan