The BNP’s Acting Chairperson Tarique Rahman will return to the nation shortly in factual effectively being, mentioned Mirza Abbas, the event’s standing committee member, today time (1 December).
“Our performing chairperson, who is now residing out of the nation, became arrested and subjected to severe torture. We possess been in the penal advanced at Chawkbazar at the an identical time. He became taken faraway from the rest of us. When he became introduced support, he would possibly maybe presumably presumably no longer drag or transfer around,” Abbas mentioned.
He made the remarks whereas addressing a dialogue organised by the Swadhinota Forum at the Nationwide Press Membership in Dhaka.
“Tarique Rahman is now fairly in factual effectively being, but I sort no longer assume he has fully recovered. It be no longer even expected for him to be exclusively wholesome, as it became a completely different roughly torture. The implications of this would possibly maybe occasionally presumably possess long-term consequences,” he added.
“He’ll return safely and shortly. Right here is why Allah kept him protected,” mentioned Abbas, a feeble Dhaka metropolis mayor and feeble minister of housing and public works.
He mentioned the 21 August attack became a conspiracy planned by a out of the country energy.
“BNP became never fascinated about that attack. A out of the country power orchestrated this substandard act in an strive to border our leader, Begum Zia, and our performing chairperson,” he added.
Claiming that a false, fabricated, and concocted case became created, Abbas mentioned the sentence became in step with a fabricated legend.
“Tarique Zia became no longer alive to, which is why he became acquitted. Within the previous, we now possess no longer got justice,” he added.
The Excessive Court (HC) today time annulled the verdict of the decrease courtroom in the two cases filed over the 21 August grenade attack, acquitting all convicts, including BNP’s Acting Chairperson Tarique Rahman and feeble dispute minister for dwelling affairs Lutfozzaman Babar.
The bench of Justice AKM Asaduzzaman and Justice Syed Enayet Hossain delivered the judgment this morning.
The courtroom furthermore declared your total trial courtroom cases of the case illegal, including the imprint sheet.
On 21 August 2004, the grenade attack became applied targeting a rally of the Awami League President Sheikh Hasina on Bangabandhu Avenue in the capital. The attack, which took dispute throughout the tenure of the BNP-Jamaat-e-Islami coalition executive, killed 24 other folks including then Awami League ladies folks’s affairs secretary Ivy Rahman.
