Bangladesh News

Former BNP secretary general Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan and two others have been sued for giving death threats to a lawyer.

Meanwhile, a Dhaka court sent detained former president of Jatiya Chhatra League Jahangir Sattar Tinku to jail for violating the Emergency Power Rules (EPR).

Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court yesterday summoned BNP leader and former LGRD and cooperatives minister Bhuiyan and two others to appear before the court on March 17, 2008 in connection with the case.

The other accused are former state minister for LGRD and Cooperatives Ziaul Haq Zia and former secretary MA Kashem.

Advocate Mahbubul Alam Dulal filed the case against them for giving him death threats.

In his complaint, Dulal said a group close to the then BNP-led coalition government threatened Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) board of trustees Chairman Prof Muzaffer Ahmad after his organisation branded the LGRD ministry as one of the most corrupt ministries in Bangladesh.

After the TIB report was published, they also threatened to sue Prof Muzaffer.

When Dulal along with some other lawyers defended Prof Muzaffer and gave statement protesting the incident, he received death threats on July 17, 2006.

TINKU CASE
Metropolitan Magistrate Mohamamd Shahin Uddin ordered to send Tinku to jail after Lalbagh police produced him before the court showing him arrested under section 16(2) of the EPR.

Nabajyoti Chakma, investigation officer (IO) of the case, said Tinku was arrested in front of the Dhaka Central Jail gate at about 11:00am while he was delivering speech after getting released on bail.

The IO said since he made provocative statements against the government, he needs to be put in jail until the completion of the investigation.

The joint forces picked up Tinku from his Maghbazar residence on January 24.