UNB, Dhaka :BNP on Saturday demanded a judicial inquiry into the death of its assistant organizing secretary Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu rejecting the probe committee formed by the government in this regard.”We’ have unequivocally said the probe committee formed over Pintu’s death is nothing but eyewash. We reject the probe committee and demand formation of a judicial inquiry into Pintu’s death,” said BNP standing committee member ASM Hannan Shah.Addressing a doa mahfil arranged in memory of Pintu in the afternoon, the BNP leader alleged that Pintu died due to the negligence of jail authorities. “Pintu died without treatment in Rajshahi jail. The jail authorities refused a doctor to treat him when he had been in the jail two days before his death.”BNP’s student front Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) arranged the doa mahfil at BNP Nayapaltan Central Office. A special munajat was also held seeking salvation of Pintu’s departed soul. On May 3, Nasiruddin Pintu, a former BNP MP who was serving life-term imprisonment in the BDR carnage case, died of cardiac arrest at the age of 48 after he was taken to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital from Rajshahi Jail.The government formed a three-member probe committee, headed by Dhaka Divisional DIG (Prison), to investigate his death on the same day.Hannan Shah alleged that the government always behaved with him like an enemy. “It can, in no way, be accepted that a dedicated leader like him would die untreated.”He said those responsible for Pintu’s death will have to face justice in the future. Pointing at the government, BNP international affair secretary Asaduzzaman Ripon said democracy cannot be established annihilating the opposition.”We think an effective dialogue and compromise is inevitable to resolve the crisis created in the country. There’s no alternative to this for the country’s progress,” he said.BNP leaders ABM Mosharraf Hossain and Rafique Sikder, former JCD leader Jabed Hasan Swadhin, JCD vice presidents Ajmol Hossain Pilot and Nazmul Hasan, and Ulama Dal President Hafez Abdul Maleque were, among others, present at the doa mahfil.
