Expressing relief over the High Court docket’s acquittal of Tarique Rahman in the 21 August grenade attack circumstances, BNP Secretary Overall Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir this day (1 December) said this verdict has manifested the whole circumstances filed against their celebration’s appearing chairman were politically motivated and conspiratorial.
“Tarique Rahman used to be acquitted by the High Court docket after legally facing the bills brought against him,” he said in a commentary.
Fakhrul, now in London, issued the commentary following the High Court docket’s verdict in the two circumstances filed over the 21 August grenade attack.
The judgement has confirmed that the fascist Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League authorities accused Tarique Rahman in these circumstances of political motives, he said.
“Thru this ancient verdict, it has been demonstrated but again that the whole circumstances filed against Tarique Rahman were political conspiracies,” Fakhrul said.
He expressed his gratitude to Allah for the choice and called upon celebration leaders and activists all the blueprint in which via the nation to pray for Tarique’s properly-being.
Earlier, at a press conference at the BNP’s Nayapaltan central office, celebration Senior Joint Secretary Overall Ruhul Kabir Rizvi expressed his pride, announcing that justice has been served because the High Court docket acquitted Tarique Rahman and the others convicted in the two circumstances.
Rizvi said when retired police officer Abdul Kahar Akhand used to be reappointed and made the investigation officer (IO) of the circumstances all around the Awami League rule, it grew to change into obvious to them that the authorities had malicious intentions.
The BNP chief also alleged that the Awami League authorities had used converse vitality to forcibly convict Tarique Rahman and other BNP leaders in the circumstances. “Now we personal bought the real judgement from the apex court docket. Some of the justice for which we were engaged in a long political fight has been reflected in the choice,” he said.
Earlier in the day, the High Court docket (HC) had overturned the choice of a decrease court docket in two circumstances filed over the August 21 grenade attack, acquitting all convicts, in conjunction with BNP’s Performing Chairperson Tarique Rahman and former converse minister for dwelling affairs Lutfozzaman Babar.
An HC bench comprising Justice AKM Asaduzzaman and Justice Syed Enayet Hossain delivered the judgement on Sunday.
The court docket also declared the payment sheet in the case unlawful.
The grenade attack, a surprising incident, happened on Dhaka’s Bangabandhu Avenue on August 21, 2004.
