HELICOPTER GUNFIRE Probe into deaths of children: HC

The High Court in the full text of a verdict has directed the government to take necessary initiatives about the children who died by gunshots fired from helicopter during the July uprising.

“We are of the opinion that the justice would be best served, if we dispose of the rule directing the respondent government to hold proper investigation on the matter specially on the babies/kids who died at the July August, 2024 incident; even they were found innocent but even then, they have died by gun-shot fired from helicopter”.

“… we direct the respondent government to take initiatives specially on the babies or kids who died at the July-August, 2024 incident while they were found into their mothers’ laps and or inside their homes and they died by gun-shooting from helicopter,” the HC bench of Justice Md Akram Hossain Chowdhury and Justice KM Rasheduzzaman Raja said in the full text of verdict which was released recently.

On December 17 last year, the bench delivered its verdict following a petition filed by Supreme Court lawyer Taimur Alam Khondaker.

Earlier, the HC had issued a rule asking the government to explain why it should not be directed to give Tk 1 crore to each family of the children who were killed in the violence centring quota movement.

In the rule, the court also asked the government to show causes why they should not be ordered to probe the incidents of deaths through an international commission.

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