Another case was filed yesterday in connection with the February 19 clash between two Awami League factions in Noakhali's Companiganj upazila, which left a local journalist dead.

Companiganj upazila Jubo League Joint Secretary Salauddin Priton filed the case with Noakhali Cognisance Court-2 against 105 named and 150 unnamed people.

Priton is a supporter of Basurhat municipality Mayor Abdul Quader Mirza, also the younger brother of AL General Secretary Obaidul Quader.

Companiganj upazila AL Organising Secretary Mizanur Rahman Badal, supporter of AL lawmakers Ekramul Karim Chowdhury and Nizam Uddin Hazari, has been named the prime accused in the case.

Among the other accused is Emdad Hossain Raju, brother of auto-rickshaw driver Alauddin, 22, who died during another clash between the two AL factions in Basurhat on March 9.

Yesterday, the judge of Noakhali Cognisance Court-2 directed the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to investigate the case and submit a report to it.

The court, however, did not set any time frame for submitting the report, said plaintiff's lawyer Sankar Chandra Bhowmik.

According to the case statement, Badal and his supporters unleashed terror and vandalised the union AL office in Companiganj's Chaprashirhat Bazar area on February 19 to establish supremacy.

At least 50 people were injured in the clash. Among them, nine, including journalist Borhan Uddin Muzakkir, 30, were hit by bullets.

The following day, Muzakkir died of his wounds at Dhaka Medical College Hospital. He was a correspondent of local news portal Barta Bazar.

With yesterday's lawsuit, a total of five cases have so far been filed over the February 19 clash.

Police have so far arrested 40 people in connection with four cases.

ANOTHER CASE AGAINST QUADER MIRZA

Meanwhile, another Noakhali court yesterday referred the case filed against Mayor Quader Mirza over assaulting valiant freedom fighter Khizir Hayat Khan to Speedy Trial Tribunal.

Khizir's wife Arjuman Parveen Runu filed the case with Noakhali Cognisance Court-4 around noon accusing 97 named and some 60 unnamed people.

Quader Mirza was named the prime accused in the case. The other accused include his son Mirza Masrur Quader and younger brother Shahdat Hossain, said plaintiff's lawyer Harunur Rashid Hawlader.

After holding hearing, the judge asked the plaintiff to take the case to the Speedy Trial Tribunal.

"We are preparing to move the case to the Speedy Trial Tribunal tomorrow [today]," said Harunur.

On March 8, Quader Mirza and his supporters allegedly attacked Khizir, also the president of Companiganj upazila AL, and assaulted him inside the upazila AL office in Basurhat's Rupali Chhattar area.

Denying the allegation, the mayor, however, said he tried to protect Khizir when some people attacked him.