Staff Reporter :A case has been filed against BNP’s Joint Secretary General Aslam Chowdhury on sedition charges for ‘conspiring with Israel to oust the government’.Golam Kibria, an Inspector of Detective Branch (DB) of Police, filed the sedition case with Gulshan Police Station on Thursday evening, said Masudur Rahman, Deputy Commissioner (Media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP). The case No. is 21, filed Under Section 120-B, 121-A and 124-A of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), the police official said. In the meantime, the DB took the permission from the Home Ministry to file the case, the DC said. Earlier, Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Hoque said this at a programme in the Telicom Auditorium of Razarbagh Police Lines in the capital on Thursday afternoon. The IGP said, “Aslam has confessed that he met Israeli politician Mendi N Safadi several times to plot against the government. “During the interrogation, Aslam told us that he met Mossad’s agent Sadafi and sought their help to conduct subversive activities in Bangladesh to topple the ruling Awami League government. He offered money for the help, but details regarding this can only be known once we arrest Aslam’s associates,” he said. “We looked for the Home Ministry’s permission to file a sedition case against Aslam Chowdhury, and the ministry sanctioned our prayer,” the IGP said. The BNP leader Aslam came into the limelight because of his meeting with Likud Party leader Mendi N Safadi during an event in India this year.Leaders of the ruling Awami League soon claimed that their meeting was part of a conspiracy to oust Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina with help of Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. The BNP has been denying the allegation, saying Aslam’s trip to New Delhi was ‘personal’.He was arrested in Dhaka on May 15 under Section 54 and questioned in police custody.
