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Dhaka South City Corporation said it was demolished because it was built in the middle of the road “without a permit.”
The monument was erected under the banner of ‘Abrar Fahad Smriti Sangsad’ under the leadership of Akhtar Hossain, former Daksh secretary for social services.
After construction, parliament workers were sworn in on Wednesday afternoon. Then, at night, a bulldozer came in the presence of a group of police and crushed it.
However, Lalbagh and Shahbagh police say they know nothing about it.
Akhtar Hossain, the coordinator of the Abrar Fahad Memorial Parliament, claimed that the police had demolished the monument “following instructions from above.”
A year ago, Abrar, a student in the Department of Electrical Engineering, lost his life due to torture by a group of BCL leaders and activists in BUET’s Sher-e-Bangla Hall.
Upon his death, BUET, the nation’s highest engineering education institution, was paralyzed by intense turmoil at BUET. The movement spread throughout the country.
The trial for the murder case began a year later. Abrar’s father, the plaintiff in the case, came from Kushtia and testified in a Dhaka court the day before.
On the first anniversary of Abrar’s death, the leaders and activists of the Bangladesh General Council for the Protection of Students’ Rights built the ‘Eight Pillars Against Aggression’ in Palashi.
Monument on the corner of Palashi in memory of Abrar
This is how the monument in memory of Abrar Fahad was built (Wednesday afternoon photo)
Asked by OC Mamun and Rashid Shahbagh Police Station after it was demolished in the presence of the police on Wednesday night, he told bdnews24.com: “We don’t know anything about it. It is below Lalbagh Police Station. “.
Lalbagh OC AKM Ashraf Uddin Police Station told bdnews24.com, “I saw students protesting in the afternoon. It is unknown at this time what he did to cause the injuries.
“Since they did it in the middle of the street, it’s at the City Corporation site, they could have broken down,” he said.
When contacted, Abu Naser, a public relations officer for the Dhaka South City Corporation, told bdnews24.com, “It is the city corporation that has disintegrated.”
Explaining the reason, he said: “To build such a pillar, the permission of the city corporation must be taken. They did it overnight without permission. If you want permission, you have to go through a process, they didn’t.
“Another reason is that it was built unexpectedly in the middle of the road. Whatever you do, there is a risk of a traffic accident. So the city corporation has broken it. “
The authorities of the City Dhaka South City Corporation demolished the monument on Wednesday night at BUET’s Palashi intersection in memory of Abrar Fahad.
Akhtar Hossain, convener of the Abrar Memorial Parliament, told bdnews24.com in response to the demolition of the monument: “We are very angry about this incident. There is no language to condemn it.”
He blamed the police and said: “I built it in the middle of the street. This shouldn’t be a problem for anyone. But it is a problem for those involved in Abrar’s murder.”
Akhter also said that BCL leaders and activists were involved in Abrar’s murder.
Council workers were sworn in Wednesday afternoon in front of a monument to Abrar Fahad
Council leaders and workers took the oath by standing in front of the monument in the afternoon.
Like Abrar Fahad, they took an oath at Abrar’s memorial to build a “terror-free” campus so that no student would be subjected to cruelty.
Explaining the eight pillars of the commemorative plaque, Akhtar said that they symbolize the eight themes of sovereignty, democracy, defense of the masses, communal harmony, economic self-sufficiency, protection of indigenous industries, agriculture and river-forest-port, cultural freedom and dignity. human.
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