CHATTOGRAM, Sept 25, 2025 (BSS)- A Chattogram court today accepted chargesheet in a killing case links with July Uprising implicating 231 persons including former Foreign Minister Dr. Hasan Mahmud, former Land Minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury Javed, and former Education Minister Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury Nowfel. 
 
This is first ever chargesheet taken into cognizance by a court here in a killing case related to student-led July Mass Uprising.  
 
Shafiqul Islam, elder brother of July Uprising martyred Shahidul Islam Shahid had filed the case with Channdgao police station in connection with the killing of his younger brother. 
 
Shahidul Islam Shahid, a 37-year-old footwear shop employee, was fatally shot in the city’s Bahaddarhat area on August 3, 2024 when AL backed armed cadres fired indiscriminately on a student-led mass protest. Shahid succumbed to his injuries at a private clinic after couple of days.  
 
4th court of Chattogram Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Mohammad Mustafa accepted the chargesheet after hearing and reviewing its admissibility as submitted by the Investigation Officer (IO) of the case on Thursday.
 

Assistant Public Prosecutor Raihanul Wazed Chowdhury of the CMM Court informed BSS that Shafiqul Islam, the plaintiff of the case instantly filed an objection petition against the chargesheet submitted by the investigation officer.
 

The court dismissed the petition and approved chargesheets against 231 individuals. So far, 84 people have been arrested in connection with the case.
 

The charge sheet for the case includes 128 witnesses, consisting of 28 ordinary citizens, 99 policemen, and one doctor.
   

The IO of the case Md Faisal- a sub-inspector of Chandgaon Police Station prepared and submitted the chargesheet under section 302 of the Penal Code to the CMM court on August 24 in 2025.  
 

Among the 231 were implicated in the chargesheet also includes Ex-CCC mayor Rezaul Karim Chowdhury, A J M Nasir Uddin, former AL lawmakers A B M Fazle Karim Chowdhury, M A Latif, Abu Reza Muhammad Nezamuddin Nadvi, Mohiuddin Bachchu, Abdus Salam, Didarul Alam Didar, S M Al Mamun, Noman Al Mahmud, City AL President Mahtab Uddin Chowdhury, former CCC councilors Esrarul Haque, Nur Mostafa Tinu, Salimullah Bachchu, Ziaul Haque Sumon, and BCL city unit president Nurul Azim Roni.