Staff Reporter :
A legal notice has been served upon the authorities concerned seeking Tk 10 crore as compensation for Md Jalal, who had been branded as Joj Miah in connection with the August 21 grenade attack, for violating his fundamental rights.
Two Supreme Court Lawyers, Mohammad Humaun Kabir Pallob and Mohammad Kawsar, sent the legal notice on behalf of Md Jalal to 11 persons, including former BNP State Minister for Home Affairs Md Lutfozzaman Babar, saying that Md Jalal has been wrongfully arrested and kept in custody for four years in the case filed for the incident of the grenade attack on August 21, 2004.
In the legal notice, they requested the government officials concerned to form an inquiry committee in order to fix the liabilities for violating the fundamental rights of innocent and helpless Md Jalal, a man from Senbagh of Noakhali, who was wrongfully arrested on June 10, 2005 and kept in custody till June 27, 2009 in connection with the case.
