Dhaka, April 27 -- Deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 406 others, including an actor, journalists and lawyers, have been accused in a case over the death of a BNP activist in Mirpur during the Anti-discrimination Movement.

Former ministers and MPs from the Hasina government, two former mayors of Dhaka, businessmen, and election commissioners were named in the case. Actor Iresh Zaker has also been implicated.

Mostafizur Rahman Bappi, the brother of the victim Mahfuz Alam Shrabon, filed the case in the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Hasibuzzaman on Apr 20.

That day, the court ordered the Mirpur police chief to accept the complaint as a regular case after taking the statement of the plaintiff, Bappi said.

Sub-Inspector Rafi...