UNB, Dhaka :
BNP on Wednesday accused the government of implicating its leader MA Qaiyum in the Italian citizen Cesare
Tavella murder case with a political motive, and said innocent people are now getting punished while offenders spared as there is no rule of law in the country.
In a statement, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir also demanded the government relieve Qaiyum and his brother MA Matin of the murder charge, and put the real offenders on trial through a proper and neutral investigation.
On Tuesday, a Dhaka court framed the charges against Dhaka city BNP joint convener MA Qaiyum and six others in a case filed in connection with the murder of Cesare Tavella.
Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md Kamrul Hossain passed the order rejecting the discharge petition by five of the accused. The court also fixed November 24 for starting the hearing. On September 28, 2015, Tavella, 50, an official of the Netherlands-based non-governmental organisation ‘ICCO Cooperation’, was shot dead by some miscreants in the city’s Gulshan area. Condemning the incident, Fakhrul said the government is doing bad politics using the militancy issue to eliminate its political opponents. “People are getting deprived of justice for lack of rule of law.”
As part of its move to obliterate opposition parties, he alleged that the government is trying to subdue BNP leaders and activists by implicating them with ‘false’ murder charges by covering up the real perpetrators.
“Italian citizen Cesare Tavella murder incident is very sensitive one. A popular leader like MA Qaiyum has been charged with the killing without any proper and neutral investigation, only to make political gains,” the BNP leader alleged. Referring to a recent comment of the RAB DG that Neo-JMB members were behind the Tavella murder, Fakhrul said the different government agencies are giving contradictory statements over the incident, creating confusion.
BNP on Wednesday accused the government of implicating its leader MA Qaiyum in the Italian citizen Cesare
Tavella murder case with a political motive, and said innocent people are now getting punished while offenders spared as there is no rule of law in the country.
In a statement, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir also demanded the government relieve Qaiyum and his brother MA Matin of the murder charge, and put the real offenders on trial through a proper and neutral investigation.
On Tuesday, a Dhaka court framed the charges against Dhaka city BNP joint convener MA Qaiyum and six others in a case filed in connection with the murder of Cesare Tavella.
Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md Kamrul Hossain passed the order rejecting the discharge petition by five of the accused. The court also fixed November 24 for starting the hearing. On September 28, 2015, Tavella, 50, an official of the Netherlands-based non-governmental organisation ‘ICCO Cooperation’, was shot dead by some miscreants in the city’s Gulshan area. Condemning the incident, Fakhrul said the government is doing bad politics using the militancy issue to eliminate its political opponents. “People are getting deprived of justice for lack of rule of law.”
As part of its move to obliterate opposition parties, he alleged that the government is trying to subdue BNP leaders and activists by implicating them with ‘false’ murder charges by covering up the real perpetrators.
“Italian citizen Cesare Tavella murder incident is very sensitive one. A popular leader like MA Qaiyum has been charged with the killing without any proper and neutral investigation, only to make political gains,” the BNP leader alleged. Referring to a recent comment of the RAB DG that Neo-JMB members were behind the Tavella murder, Fakhrul said the different government agencies are giving contradictory statements over the incident, creating confusion.
