UNB, Dhaka :
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday said they will move the High Court seeking capital punishment for Tarique Rahman, the mastermind of August-21 grenade attack and BNP acting chairman.
“We’ll surely go to the High Court as there’s a scope to carry out a legal fight for the maximum punishment of Tarique Rahman,” he said.
Quader, also the Road Transport and
Bridges Minister, further said, “Harkat-ul-Jihad leader Mufti Hannan in his confessional statement said they made the attack at the behest of Tarique Rahman. So, the mastermind of the killing must be awarded the highest punishment.”
He came up with the remarks while talking to reporters after placing wreaths at a makeshift altar in front of the party’s central office at Bangabandhu Avenue. The minister said the BNP-Jamaat alliance regime carried out the grisly grenade attack on Awami League’s an anti-terrorism public rally targeting then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina their prime target on this day in 2004.
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday said they will move the High Court seeking capital punishment for Tarique Rahman, the mastermind of August-21 grenade attack and BNP acting chairman.
“We’ll surely go to the High Court as there’s a scope to carry out a legal fight for the maximum punishment of Tarique Rahman,” he said.
Quader, also the Road Transport and
Bridges Minister, further said, “Harkat-ul-Jihad leader Mufti Hannan in his confessional statement said they made the attack at the behest of Tarique Rahman. So, the mastermind of the killing must be awarded the highest punishment.”
He came up with the remarks while talking to reporters after placing wreaths at a makeshift altar in front of the party’s central office at Bangabandhu Avenue. The minister said the BNP-Jamaat alliance regime carried out the grisly grenade attack on Awami League’s an anti-terrorism public rally targeting then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina their prime target on this day in 2004.
