UNB, Dhaka :
BNP on Friday alleged that the government has started taking revenge on Chief Justice SK Sinha over the 16th amendment verdict through launching an investigation into his wealth information.
“According to different media reports, NBR and the Bangladesh Bank have started investigation into the income and expenditure of the Chief Justice. The country’s people consider such investigation as a government step to take revenge on him,” said BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi.
Speaking at a press briefing at BNP’s Nayapaltan central office, he also said Awami League has now put the Chief Justice in its dock, and the party is trying to harass him by using the Anti-Corruption Commission and NBR as it did in the case of opposition leaders and activists. “The launching of investigation against the Chief Justice has exposed that the government files false cases against its opponents using the institutions like the ACC and NBR,” the BNP leader observed. He also alleged that the government has adopted a scorched-earth policy to keep the apex court under its control. Rizvi said the ruling party is trying to change the Supreme Court’s 16th amendment verdict by issuing threats as the rule of law has got disappeared due to ‘misrule’.
As the apex court in its observation described parliament ineffective and immature, the BNP leader demanded the government immediately quit dissolving it.
He accused the government of continuing its repressive acts across the
country to suppress BNP leaders and activists. “The government has turned the entire country into a killing ground by resorting to enforced disappearance, killing and extrajudicial killing only to cling to power.
Rizvi alleged that law enforcers killed Noakhali’s Begumganj’s Alaiar union unit Jubo Dal joint convener Mohammad Alam in a ‘so-called’ gunfight after ‘picking’ him up from his home on Thursday.
Besides, he said, Bogra’s Shajahanpur upazila’s Ashekpur union BNP leader and ex-UP member Maksudul Haque Pintu was tortured to death in police custody on Tuesday. “We strongly condemn and protest the killings of Alam and Pintu.” The BNP leader alleged that the flood victims are going through serious ordeal as the government has failed to ensure adequate relief materials for them.
BNP on Friday alleged that the government has started taking revenge on Chief Justice SK Sinha over the 16th amendment verdict through launching an investigation into his wealth information.
“According to different media reports, NBR and the Bangladesh Bank have started investigation into the income and expenditure of the Chief Justice. The country’s people consider such investigation as a government step to take revenge on him,” said BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi.
Speaking at a press briefing at BNP’s Nayapaltan central office, he also said Awami League has now put the Chief Justice in its dock, and the party is trying to harass him by using the Anti-Corruption Commission and NBR as it did in the case of opposition leaders and activists. “The launching of investigation against the Chief Justice has exposed that the government files false cases against its opponents using the institutions like the ACC and NBR,” the BNP leader observed. He also alleged that the government has adopted a scorched-earth policy to keep the apex court under its control. Rizvi said the ruling party is trying to change the Supreme Court’s 16th amendment verdict by issuing threats as the rule of law has got disappeared due to ‘misrule’.
As the apex court in its observation described parliament ineffective and immature, the BNP leader demanded the government immediately quit dissolving it.
He accused the government of continuing its repressive acts across the
country to suppress BNP leaders and activists. “The government has turned the entire country into a killing ground by resorting to enforced disappearance, killing and extrajudicial killing only to cling to power.
Rizvi alleged that law enforcers killed Noakhali’s Begumganj’s Alaiar union unit Jubo Dal joint convener Mohammad Alam in a ‘so-called’ gunfight after ‘picking’ him up from his home on Thursday.
Besides, he said, Bogra’s Shajahanpur upazila’s Ashekpur union BNP leader and ex-UP member Maksudul Haque Pintu was tortured to death in police custody on Tuesday. “We strongly condemn and protest the killings of Alam and Pintu.” The BNP leader alleged that the flood victims are going through serious ordeal as the government has failed to ensure adequate relief materials for them.
