BSS, Dhaka :
Awami League Advisory Council member and former Railway Minister Suranjit Sengupta, MP, on Friday urged the government to complete the trial of the August 21 grenade attack cases expeditiously.
“As the Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister, I am not satisfied with which the cases proceeded over the past 10 years. Under any circumstances, the cases should not take 10 years for completion. I will ask for explanation in the next meeting of the standing committee,” he said.
Suranjit Sengupta, a senior parliamentarian of the ruling Awami League, said this on Friday while speaking as the chief guest at a discussion in the city.
Bangabandhu Academy organised the discussion at the auditorium of the Central Public Library in the capital in observance of the 10th anniversary of August 21 grenade attack.
Adviser of the academy Haji Md Selim, MP, chaired the discussion, also addressed, among others, by Samyabadi Dal central leader Haroon Chowdhury and secretary general of the academy Humayun Kabir Mizi.
Suranjit Sengupta said, “I will seek explanation from the ministry concerned in the next meeting of the parliamentary standing committee. They (personalities concerned in the ministry) will be invited to the committee and then the trial in the cases of the August 21 grenade attack will be completed expeditiously removing the impediments in the cases in consultation with them.”