Staff Reporter :
Md Jalal, who had been branded as Joj Miah in connection with the deadly August 21 grenade attack, has filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking its order on five convicts to give him Tk 10 crore as
compensation for violating his fundamental rights.
The convicts are former BNP State Minister for Home Affairs Lutfozzaman Babar, then Inspector General of Police Khodabox Chowdhury, ex-Assistant Superintendent of Police and Investigation Officer Abdur Rashid, ex-ASP Munshi Atiqur Rahman and ex-Special Superintendent of Police Md Ruhul Amin.
In the petition, Jalal requested the HC to direct the government to form an inquiry committee led by a retired judge of the Appellate Division to conduct a probe on whether Lutfozzaman Babar, Khodabox Chowdhury, Abdur Rashid, Munshi Atiqur Rahman, Ruhul Amin and any other person were liable in wrongfully arresting and keeping him in custody for four years in connection with the August 21 grenade attack case.
He submitted the petition through Supreme Court lawyers Mohammad Humaun Kabir Pallob and Mohammad Kawsar to the HC also requesting it to ask the government to confiscate all the movable and immovable properties of the five persons if they are found liable for violating his fundamental rights.
Home Secretary, Inspector General of Police and nine others were made respondents in the writ petition.
Lawyer Humaun Kabir Pallob said the HC may hold hearing on the writ petition next week.
Earlier, the lawyers on August 12 this year sent a legal notice upon the respondents asking them to take appropriate measures regarding the issue. However, the respondents didn’t comply with the demand of the notice.
Md Jalal, a man from Senbagh of Noakhali, was wrongfully arrested on June 10, 2005 and kept in custody till June 27, 2009 in the case filed for the incident of the grenade attack on August 21, 2004.
