Former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque were sued over the killing of Firoz Talukder, an office assistant of Rangpur Chemical Ltd, who was shot from a helicopter in Dhaka’s Mirpur on 19 July during student movement.

The others accused in the case are Awami League General Secretary and former road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan and former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Manun.

Victim’s wife Reshma Sultana filed the case with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mehedi Hasan on Wednesday.

Upon hearing, the magistrate recorded the statement of the complainant and asked the officer-in-charge of Mirpur Model Police Station to register it as a first information report (FIR).