The High Court on Monday directed the government not to harass or show arrested three BNP leaders, including its vice-chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka and joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, in new cases without following the due process of law.
The other is BNP’s organising secretary Golam Akbar Khandakar.
Following separate writ petitions, an HC bench comprising Justice Salma Masud Chowdhury and Justice M Habibul Gani passed the order.
Advocate Joynul Abedin, Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokon, Barrister Ragib Rauf Chowdhury and Sagir Hossain Leon appeared for the BNP leaders while deputy attorney general M Mokhlesur Rahman represented the state.
While talking to reporters after the order, Barrister Mahbub said the government is filing one case after another against BNP men only to harass them.
The wives of the three BNP leaders filed the writ petitions with the High Court on apprehension that they might be shown arrested in more cases, he said.
Khoka was arrested from a house in the city’s Uttara area on December 4 last year.
On November 30 last year, plainclothes police stormed into the BNP central office at Nayapaltan and picked up Ruhul Kabir Rzvi.
On the other hand, Golam Akbar was arrested in front of city BNP office in Chittagong city on November 28 last.
Source: UNB Connect
