Missing Bogura BNP leaders: HC seeks police report
Staff Reporter :
The High Court on Wednesday wanted to know the whereabouts of two BNP men in Bogura who went missing allegedly after being detained by law enforcers on December 14.
The court asked the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to submit a report on the whereabouts of the two, Anwar Hossain Hridoy, Assistant Office Secretary of Bagura’s Kahalu upazila unit BNP, and Delwar Hossain, General Secretary of Birkedar union unit BNP in Kahalu upazila, before it by January 4.
The bench of Justice Abu Taher Md Saifur Rahman and Justice Md Bashir Ullah passed the order after hearing two separate writ petitions filed seeking HC orders on the authorities concerned of the government to find out the whereabouts of Anwar and Delwar.
The HC also issued a rule asking the respondents to explain in three weeks as to why they should not be directed to produce Anwar and Delwar before this court so that the court can be satisfied that they were not detained illegally.
The Home Secretary, Inspector General of Police, Director General of RAB, and other officials concerned have been made respondents to the rule.
Earlier on Tuesday, Anwar’s nephew Nurunnabi and Delwar’s son Sajjad Hossain submitted the petitions through their lawyer Kayser Kamal to the HC.
According to the petitions, the law enforcers reportedly detained them from different places in Kahalu upazila of the district on December 14, but they were not produced before any court till Tuesday (December 26). Police, however, denied the allegation.
Separate general diaries were lodged with the police station concerned in Bogura, but the law enforcers are yet to find their whereabouts, they said in the petitions.
The petitioners appealed to the HC to direct the law enforcers to produce Anwar and Delwar before this court in 24 hours. Lawyers A J Mohammad Ali, Kayser Kamal and Md Maksud Ullah appeared in the court proceedings on behalf of the petitioners, while Deputy Attorney General Shafiqul Islam represented the state.
