Staff Reporter :
A Supreme Court lawyer sought permission from the Ministry of Home Affairs to file a sedition case against Hefazat-e Islam ameer Junayed Babunagari and joint secretary general Mamunul Huq for allegedly defaming the Bangabandhu and the Constitution.
Supreme Court lawyer Md Jishan Mahmud sent a prayer to the Senior Secretary of the Public Safety Division of the Home Ministry on Sunday seeking permission to file the sedition case against Junayed Babunagari and Mamunul Huq.
In his prayer, Jishan Mahmud mentioned that at a rally in Dhaka on November 13 last Khelafat Majlish leader Moulana Mamunul Huq strongly criticised the construction of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s statue.
Warning the government, he (Mamunul Huq) said he would commit another ‘Shapla Chattar’ and threw away the statue unless the government abandoned its plan to construct it.
Mamunul, who is also acting secretary general of Bangladesh Khelafat Majlish and president of its youth front Bangladesh Jubo Khelafat Majlish, demanded the removal of the statue of the Father of the Nation in Dhaka’s Dholaipar.
On the other hand, at a mahfil at Hathazari in Chattogram in the evening of November 29, Hefazat-e Islam ameer Junayed Babunagari threatened to pull down all statues no matter which party erects them.
Babunagari also said, “Statues are against Sharia, no matter whose statue it is. I won’t name a party or leader.”
“But I swear by Allah, if someone erects a statue, even of my father, I will be the first person to pull it down. I will pull down statues no matter which party erects them,” he added.
Jishan Mahmud, in his prayer, said their highly objectionable remarks have been published in different national dailies and broadcast by electronic media over the past several days. In sequel to their remarks, their followers vandalised the Bangabandhu’s under-construction statue in Kushtia at night on December 4 and broke the right hand and entire face of the statue.
It has also been stated in the prayer that vandalising the constitutionally recognised Father of the Nation Bangabandhu’s statue amounts to hatching conspiracy against Bangladesh as a state. Miscreants attacked the Bangabandhu’s statue as Moulana Mamunul Huq and Junayed Babunagari directly instigated them to commit the crime.
So, it is necessary to take prior permission from the government before taking the sedition charges into cognizance according to Section 196 of the Criminal Procedures (CrPC). Because of it, a prayer was sent to the Home Ministry, he said.
