Separate complaints have been filed with the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and other people on charges of carrying out massacres in Lakshmipur and Dhaka during the quota reform movement and subsequent mass upsurge.

Members of the National Citizens' Committee, a platform formed with leaders of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement which spearheaded the movement, were present at the time of filing three complaints with the ICT chief prosecutor’s office on Thursday. 
National Citizens' Committee spokesperson Samanta Sharmin said the committee is providing legal assistance to the families of the victims to file cases.

According to the statement of a case filed against six people, including Hasina, Shakib Hasan, a BA (Pass) student of Dania College, was shot to death at Jatrabari during the Complete Shutdown programme enforced by the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement on 18 July.

Another case filed against Hasina and 24 other people is linked to the death of Osman Patwari alias Osman Gani, a student of Chittagong Polytechnic Institute was shot dead in the North Temuhani area of Lakshmipur district town 4 August, the day before Sheikh Hasina's fall.

Shakib's father Md Mortuza Alam and Osman Gani's father Md Abdur Rahman filed the cases.

Meanwhile, another complaint was filed with the ICT over the killing of BAF Shaheen College student Ahnaf in the Mirpur-10 area on 4 August.

Ahnaf's mother Zartaj Parveen Shafiq filed the complaint against the unnamed accused.

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