Bangladesh Excessive Courtroom has acquitted all of the accused together with the Appearing Chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Occasion (BNP), Tareq Rahman within the August 21 grenade assaults case on former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, attorneys stated on Sunday.
The court docket additionally scrapped the decrease court docket verdict, during which a complete of 49 individuals had been convicted. Amongst them, the decrease court docket sentenced 19 folks together with former State Minister Lutfuzzaman Babar to loss of life and acquitted all of the accused.
The Excessive Courtroom noticed that the trial court docket verdict within the circumstances is unlawful because it was delivered in an unlawful method.
The Dhaka grenade assault occurred at an anti-terrorism rally organised by Awami League on Bangabandhu Avenue on August 21, this yr.
The assault left 24 lifeless and greater than 500 injured. The assault was carried out at 5:22 pm after Sheikh Hasina, the then-leader of opposition had completed addressing a crowd of 20,000 folks from the again of a truck. Hasina additionally sustained some accidents within the assault.
In the meantime, on November 30, ISKCON Kolkata claimed that Bangladesh authorities have arrested two of its monks, Adipurush Shyam Das and Ranganath Das Brahmachari, and its secretary of Chinmoy Krishna Das.
Vice President of ISKCON Kolkata Radha Raman stated that the monks had been arrested on Friday by the police whereas on their method residence after assembly secretary of Chinmoy Krishna Das, who was arrested on the costs of sedition on November 25.
Vice President of ISKCON Kolkata, Radha Raman stated, “On November 29, when Adipurush Shyam Das and Ranganath Das Brahmachari had been returning after assembly Chinmoy Krishna Prabhu, they had been arrested by the police. We’re additionally getting info that the secretary of Chinmoy Krishna Das has additionally been arrested,” Radha Raman stated in a self-made video.
He additional claimed that rioters had additionally vandalised the ISKCON centre in Bangladesh. On Friday, India expressed concern over the rise of “extremist rhetoric, rising incidents of violence and provocation” in Bangladesh. The Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA) stated that India has persistently and strongly raised the problem of focused assaults on Hindus and different minorities with the Bangladesh authorities.
