Detective Branch of police on Thursday filed a sedition case against Bangladesh Nationalist Party joint secretary general Aslam Chowdhury for plotting with Israel to overthrow the government.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police deputy commissioner [media] Masudur Rahman confirmed the matter to New Age.
He said that the DB north division filed the case with Gulshan police station on Thursday afternoon.
Aslam, who was arrested on May 15 under section 54, was now in jail.
Earlier on Thursday, inspector general of police AKM Shahidul Hoque told reporters at Rajarbagh Police Lines that the home ministry has cleared the way for brining the sedation charge against the BNP leader.
‘We have sought permission to home ministry in this regard and the ministry gave its clearance,’ he said.
‘Initial investigations found evidence of conspiracy with the leaders of Israel’s Likud party to destabilise the country in an effort to damage the government’s image,’ the police chief said.
On May 15, the newly appointed BNP joint secretary general Aslam Chowdhury was arrested at Khilkhet in the capital, hours after the government imposed a ban on him travelling abroad over an alleged meeting with an agent of Israeli intelligence agency Mossad.
Aslam Chowdhury came to light over an alleged meeting with Israel’s ruling Likud Party leader Mendi N Safadi in India early this month.
State minister for foreign affairs Shahriar Alam said recently that the government had evidence that the BNP was trying to come to power by using the Israeli intelligence force Mossad.
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir denied ‘ever having any relation with Israel’ and said that BNP had total support to Palestine’s right to sovereignty.
Mendi in an interview with BBC Bangla service said that he met BNP leader Aslam Chowdhury in India but had no ‘secret meeting’ with the Bangladeshi opposition leader.
He said he met Aslam at a programme at New Delhi of India where he was invited by the youth front of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.
He mentioned that Aslam was invited to the programme as a political leader of a neighbouring country.
‘Nothing could be funnier than the claims that we were conspiring to stage a military coup in Bangladesh or hatching a plot against the government’, Mendi told BBC Bangla Service.
‘It is illogical that some people would hatch a conspiracy against a government at a public programme and then post their photographs on Facebook’, he said.
Source: New Age
