BNP demands judicial probe into detained suspect killing

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Sunday demanded judiciary probe into extrajudicial killings including the killing of detained suspect in hacking of a Madaripur college teacher in a reported ‘gunfight’ on Saturday.
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir at a briefing at the party’s central office also said that the remarks prime minister Sheikh Hasina made on Saturday alleging that BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman issued death threat was indecent, provocative and devoid of political norms.
He said that the prime minister at an iftar party at the National Press Club without naming, but indicating Tarique Rahman said that staying in London Tarique issued death threat to Hasina, her niece Tulip Siddiqui, sister Sheikh Rehana.
Fakhrul said that issuing death threat to a lawmaker, her mother, and aunt was not possible in any way in a developed country like Britain, a democratic country having rule of law.
The BNP secretary general condemned and protested at the prime minister’s ‘irresponsible’ statements.
He said that the prime minister made such ‘malicious attack’ on Tarique only to diver the attention of people angered by the recent mass arrest, extrajudicial killings and killing of ‘militancy suspects’ in custody.
He demanded judicial inquiry into extrajudicial killings including the killing of Golam Faizullah Fahim, who was detained by local people immediately after the hacking of Madaripur college teacher Ripon Chakrawarty at his house on June 15 and remanded in police custody for interrogation on Friday, in a reported gunfight on Saturday.
He alleged that the suspect was killed so that the perpetrators of the recent targeted killings and attacks might not be exposed.
BNP leaders Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Goyeshwar Chandra Roy, Abduallh Al Noman, Altaf Hossain Chowdhury and Selima Rahman, among others, were present.
Jatiyatabadi Jubadal, the youth wing of BNP, on Sunday announced countrywide demonstrations for today protesting at prime minister’s ‘indecent’ remarks against Tarique.