The BNP on Saturday said that it would file writ petition with the Supreme Court against the ghostly cases.
“We intend to know why departmental action are not being taken against the police officials who filed the cases, and why punishment will not be awarded for filing such case a day after BNP’s rally at Suhrawardy Udyan on September 30,” BNP Standing Committee Member Barrister Moudud Ahmed said it in a press briefing at its Nayapaltan central office in the capital.
He said that, his party would file writ petition with the High Court citing an example of filing a ghostly case with Hatirjheel police station in the capital.
In the briefing, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir mentioned that a total of 4,149 ghostly cases have been filed accusing 86, 692 as named leaders and workers and 2.76 lakh unnamed.
He said the government has started the fresh wave of cases against the party men when the leaders and the
activists observed its founding anniversary on September 1, across the country. He said a total of 4,684 leaders and activists of the party were arrested from September 1 to October 5.
He said the statistics proves that the government is taking all possible attempts to stop BNP from contesting the next election likely to be held in December.
Besides, around 1,204 people have been victims of enforced disappearance. Of them, 781 people have been shown arrested by the law enforcement agencies while 423 disappeared,” Mirza Fakhrul said.
He said, around 1512 leaders and activists have been victims of killing since 2009. Mirza Fakhrul said, “BNP Chairperson has been confined to jail while party’s Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman has been exiled from the country being implicated with false and politically motivated cases.”
Apart from this, the government is plotting to finish trial proceedings of the cases lodged against the party’s senior leaders in a bid to keep them away from the election process, he alleged.
BNP Standing Committee Members Dr. Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain and Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, central leader Amanullah Aman and Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, among with others, were present.
