UNB, Dhaka :
Bangladesh Hindu, Buddhist, Christian Oikya Parishad on Monday will block roads in Rangpur and Rajshahi divisions and all major roads in divisional cities for an hour on April 7 if ‘missing’ public prosecutor Rathis Chandra Bhowmik cannot be rescued by the time.
The announcement came from a press conference arranged by the organisation at the Jatiya Press Club on Monday.
Reading out a statement, Parishad general secretary
advocate Rana Dasgupta said, “We demand Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s intervention finding out the missing lawyer immediately.”
Advocate Rathish, 55, who represented the state in a case over the killings of Japanese national Hoshi Kunio and Rahmat Ali, khadem (caretaker) of a shrine, remained ‘missing’ since Friday morning.
Rana said, Bangladesh Puja Udjapan Parishad and Bangladesh Hindu, Buddhist, Christian Oikya Parishad jointly arranged a human chain on Saturday at the Jatiya Press Club and demanded the government rescue the lawyer within 24 hours, but Rathis could not be traced yet.
Jayanto Sen Dipu, president of Bangladesh Puja Udjapan Parishad, said advocate Rathish had helped reclaim khas land worth around Tk 300 crore from illegal occupation this year and this can be one the reasons of his missing.
They also expressed their concern that if Advocate Rathish, also the president of Rangpur unit of Bangladesh Puja Udjapan Parishad, is not rescued immediately the minority community will lose their sense of security.
Rathish Chandra Bhowmik, the counsel of Japanese citizen Kunio Hoshi murder case, was picked up by two bikers from in front of his house at Tajhat on the outskirts of Rangpur city on Friday morning in the name of work, claimed his brother Sushanta Bhowmik.
Since then, he remained missing and his cell-phone was also found switched off.
Kunio Hoshi, 65, was gunned down near his farmhouse at Kachu Alutary in Kaunia upazila on October 3, 2015.
In February last year, a special court of Rangpur convicted five members of the banned Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and sentenced them to death for killing the Japanese citizen.
Bangladesh Hindu, Buddhist, Christian Oikya Parishad on Monday will block roads in Rangpur and Rajshahi divisions and all major roads in divisional cities for an hour on April 7 if ‘missing’ public prosecutor Rathis Chandra Bhowmik cannot be rescued by the time.
The announcement came from a press conference arranged by the organisation at the Jatiya Press Club on Monday.
Reading out a statement, Parishad general secretary
advocate Rana Dasgupta said, “We demand Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s intervention finding out the missing lawyer immediately.”
Advocate Rathish, 55, who represented the state in a case over the killings of Japanese national Hoshi Kunio and Rahmat Ali, khadem (caretaker) of a shrine, remained ‘missing’ since Friday morning.
Rana said, Bangladesh Puja Udjapan Parishad and Bangladesh Hindu, Buddhist, Christian Oikya Parishad jointly arranged a human chain on Saturday at the Jatiya Press Club and demanded the government rescue the lawyer within 24 hours, but Rathis could not be traced yet.
Jayanto Sen Dipu, president of Bangladesh Puja Udjapan Parishad, said advocate Rathish had helped reclaim khas land worth around Tk 300 crore from illegal occupation this year and this can be one the reasons of his missing.
They also expressed their concern that if Advocate Rathish, also the president of Rangpur unit of Bangladesh Puja Udjapan Parishad, is not rescued immediately the minority community will lose their sense of security.
Rathish Chandra Bhowmik, the counsel of Japanese citizen Kunio Hoshi murder case, was picked up by two bikers from in front of his house at Tajhat on the outskirts of Rangpur city on Friday morning in the name of work, claimed his brother Sushanta Bhowmik.
Since then, he remained missing and his cell-phone was also found switched off.
Kunio Hoshi, 65, was gunned down near his farmhouse at Kachu Alutary in Kaunia upazila on October 3, 2015.
In February last year, a special court of Rangpur convicted five members of the banned Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and sentenced them to death for killing the Japanese citizen.
