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Deposed Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina and six of her loyalists were accused in a murder case more than a week after she resigned and fled the South Asian country in the face of massive student protests, court officials said on Tuesday. Amir Hamza, a businessman, filed the case with the metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka. He accuses Hasina, two of her Cabinet colleagues and senior police officers of being responsible for Abu Sayeed’s killing on July 19. Hamza asserts that Sayeed died after police opened fire indiscriminately on student protesters in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur neighbourh…

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