This is the second case filed against Hasina, 76, since she resigned and fled to India on August 5 following widespread protests against her Awami League-led government over a controversial job quota system.
The victim of the enforced disappearance, Supreme Court lawyer Sohel Rana, filed the petition in the case, The Daily Star newspaper reported.
Dhaka Metropolitan Court Magistrate Farzana Shakila Sumu Chowdhury ordered the charges to be admitted as a case.
Other accused in the case include senior ministers in Hasina’s cabinet, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, former law minister Anisul Haq, former inspector general of police (IGP) Shahidul Haque, former Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) director general Benazir Ahmed and 25 unidentified RAB members.
“On February 10, 2015, I was stopped in Sector 5 of Uttara and forced into a vehicle. As soon as I was inside the vehicle, I was given electric shocks on my ears and genitals and almost knocked unconscious,” Rana said, according to the report.
“After enduring various forms of brutal torture over time, I was finally released in August from Godagari, Rajshahi,” he said.
A murder case was filed against Hasina and six others on Tuesday over the death of a grocery store owner during violent clashes last month that led to the downfall of her government.
More than 230 people have been killed in Bangladesh in nationwide violence that erupted after Hasina’s government fell on August 5, taking the death toll to 560 since anti-quota protests began in mid-July.
An interim government was formed after the collapse of the Hasina-led government, and her top adviser, 84-year-old Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, announced the portfolios of her 16-member council of advisers last week.
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