Remove Suranjit
SCBA president urges govt
Supreme Court Bar Association President Zainul Abedin yesterday demanded the government arrests Suranjit Sengupta, minister without portfolio, after removing him from ministerial charge within 24 hours.
“Whistleblower driver Azam Khan's statements broadcast by television has cleared that he [Suranjit] has looted money and was involved in corruption while he was the railway minister,” he said.
Zainul was addressing a meeting organised by Jatiyabadi Ainjibi Forum (JAF), a body of pro-BNP lawyers, in protest of arrest of Jubo Dal President Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal, at the bar association premises.
Azam, driver of Suranjit Sengupta's sacked assistant Omar Faruk Talukder, told Rtv in an interview aired on October 4 and 5 that the money found in the microbus at Pilkhana headquarters of Bangladesh Border Guard was being taken to Suranjit's house.
The SCBA president yesterday demanded immediate release of Alal and withdrawal of cases filed against the opposition leaders and activists.
JAF President Rafiqul Islam Mia also spoke.
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