BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi expressed pleasure, asserting that justice has been served because the High Court acquitted Tarique Rahman and a host of convicted other folks in two conditions filed over the 21 August grenade assault.
“Justice has been served,” he acknowledged at some stage in a press convention at this time (1 December) on the BNP’s Nayapaltan central office.
Rizvi acknowledged BNP Performing Chairman Tarique Rahman and a host of birthday celebration leaders accused in the 2 conditions had been disadvantaged of justice below the Awami League executive.
Rizvi acknowledged that after retired police officer Abdul Kahar Akhand changed into reappointed and made the investigation officer (IO) of the conditions at some stage in the Awami League rule, it grew to change into determined to them that the manager had malicious intentions.
The BNP leader also alleged that the Awami League executive had primitive recount vitality to forcibly convict Tarique Rahman and a host of BNP leaders in the conditions.
“We have got the ethical judgment from the apex court docket. Some of the justice for which we’ve got been engaged in a prolonged political battle has been mirrored in the verdict,” he acknowledged.
Earlier in the day, the High Court (HC) had overturned the verdict of a decrease court docket in two conditions filed over the 21 August grenade assault, acquitting all convicts, together with BNP’s Performing Chairperson Tarique Rahman and faded recount minister for home affairs Lutfozzaman Babar.
An HC bench comprising Justice AKM Asaduzzaman and Justice Syed Enayet Hossain delivered the judgment at this time.
The court docket also declared the payment sheet in the case illegal.
The grenade assault, a spirited searching incident, took place on Dhaka’s Bangabandhu Avenue on 21 August 2004.
