Most of everyone from that time still remember these events. The procession, protest and demands.
The thing not said in the following note is that Humayun Ahmed had to change his script because of public demand in ways that he didn't want to. The change was : in the end the villain was killed by the sidekick. He later said in an interview "I hated adding that last scene. In real life, villains walk away without any harm or justice, and I wanted to put it that way. But had to do it because I was pressed for something. To show some justice."
As usual, I didn't watch any of those. Not a single episode of this long running popular series. But know those as like how everyone does, because those were so big events. Everyone was talking about those and newspapers were all covering it.