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BNP on Wednesday turned down the lower court’s verdict against its acting chairman Tarique Rahman and his wife Zubaida Rahman, saying it was given at the behest of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to thwart the ongoing one-point movement.
“The country’s people have turned down this dictated verdict and a farce in the name of trial with hatred. This verdict has exposed the vengeance of the head of the government (towards Tarique),” said party Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir while speaking at a press conference at the BNP Chairperson’s Gulshan office, reports UNB.
He said when their current movement spread across the country like wildfire, the verdict was handed down as a trick of the government to confuse people.
“Revenge has been met by putting a gun on the neck of the court to make the ongoing movement leaderless. The ongoing movement of the BNP can’t be suppressed with such acts. We strongly condemn and protest this verdict,” Fakhrul added.
He also urged the government to withdraw the sentence against them in ‘false’ cases.
“Although there are about 49 lakh cases pending with the court, the proceedings of this case completed at lightning speed, manifesting that this verdict has been given as per Sheikh Hasina's instructions,” alleged the BNP leader.
He said the verdict again is another example of the politicisation of the Judiciary.
BNP standing committee members Mirza Abbas, Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, Abdul Moyeen Khan, Nazrul Islam Khan and Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury were present at the press conference.
Earlier in the day, BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman was sentenced to nine years' imprisonment and his wife Zubaida Rahman was handed a three-year jail term in a corruption case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
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