BNP submits list of fictitious cases to IGP

Staff Reporter :
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) urged the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Abdullah Al-Mamun to take steps for withdrawing the fresh “fictitious” cases filed by police against the party leaders and activists.
A four-member BNP delegation, led by party Vice Chairman Barkatullah Bulu, met the IGP at the Police Headquarters and also handed him over a letter from BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in this regard.
The delegation went to the Police Headquarters around 12:50pm and had an hour-long meeting with the IGP about the fresh cases against the party leaders and activists and the party’s planned rally on December 10 in the capital.
BNP’s letter to the IGP said, “Recently, the number of false cases filed against political leaders and workers have reached extreme heights…Besides enforced disappearances and murder, such fictitious cases and political repression also falls under the purvey of crimes against humanity under the International Crime (tribunals) Act 1973.”
According to a newspaper report, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police prepared a list with detailed information about BNP leaders and workers and its subsidiaries in each ward of Dhaka.
According to the BNP’s letter, about 169 false cases have been registered from last August till 26 November and about 6,723 people were named in the cases while 15,050 unidentified people were accused.
About BNP’s December 10 rally, leaders said the police officials raised the issue of the rally. “We’ve said we want to hold it (meeting) in city’s Nayapaltan. We sent two letters (to DMP) on November 13 and November 20 seeking
Nayapaltan for our meeting venue. We didn’t want any second venue.”
However, police officials urged the BNP leaders to arrange the rally at Suhrawardy Udyan promising them to extend all-out support in this regard.