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The court has rejected the pleas of six people, including former Prime Minister and BNP President Khaleda Zia and her son, BNP Senior Vice President Tarique Rahman, for vandalizing the Bangabandhu sculpture and inciting anti-sculpture propaganda. .
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Satyabrata Sikder approved the order in court on Thursday (December 10).
The other defendants in the case are BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Acting Amir Junaid Ahmed Babungari of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh, Acting Bangladesh Secretary General Khilafah Majlis, Muhammad Manunul Haque, and Syed Faizul Karim of the Islamic Government Movement.
Earlier on Wednesday (December 9), Bangladeshi President Jannetri Parishad, AB Siddiqui, presented the case. After taking the plaintiff’s statement, the judge settled the case for Thursday.
According to the petition, the militant group led by Khaleda Zia created various activities and clashes to stop the sculpture of the Father of the Nation and with his thugs broke a hand of the sculpture of the Father of the Nation in Kushtia on the night of December 4. He broke his ear from a sweet sculpture on the campus of Dhaka University. BNP, Jamaat, Hefazat-e-Islam, Islami Andolan – all these organizations are planning to make Pakistan a country by undermining the independence and sovereignty of the country and the architect of independence wants to erase the name of the father of the nation from the soil of this country. .
According to the petition, the Deputy Secretary General of Hefazat-e-Islam told a Hifazat-e-Islam conference at the BMA Bhaban auditorium on Topkhana Road in the capital on November 13 that there would be no sculpture in Bangladesh and no sculpture would be allowed. sculpture of the Father of the Nation. At the beginning of November 26, the current acting Emir of Hifazat-e-Islam, Junaid Ahmed Babungari, said in Hathazari in Chittagong that there would be no sculptures if the country followed the rules of the Medina Charter. He threatened to create another Shapla Chattar if construction on the sculpture was not stopped.
The petition further stated: “Since independence, these extremist anti-independence activists have been committing misdeeds and defaming the country to the world by distorting the Father of the Nation, the map of the country, the national flag and the history of the War of Release”. In a meeting in front of Baitul Mukarram, Faizul Karim said, all the sculptures will be broken and thrown in Buriganga. If necessary, it will be collected again at Shapla Chattar. Therefore, in the interest of justice, I request that arrest warrants be issued against the accused under articles 500/506/109 and 427 of the Penal Code.
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