The Supreme Court Bar Association and the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Sunday brushed aside the attorney general's accusation of committing 'politics of dead body' and held him responsible for the death of MU Ahmed.
The bar association president, Khandakar Mahbub Hossain, at a news con- ference in his house said that the attorney general, Mahbubey Alam, was responsible for the death of former deputy attorney general MU Ahmed.
MU Ahmed, who was admitted to hospital on August 16 as he suffered a heart attack after his arrest on August 11 in a case filed in connection with a fracas in the High Court between the lawyers leaning towards the BNP and the ruling Awami League when the court warned Khaleda Zia against making any derogatory comments about the constitution in the future, died in Square Hospitals in police custody on Friday.
'If the attorney general had wanted, he could have saved the life of MU Ahmed. We sought bail for him but it was the attorney general who opposed it in court and he rather sought that all [the accused in the case] should be sent to jail,' he said.
Mahbub said that after the court ruling for the medical treatment of MU Ahmed at government expense, he had requested the attorney general to take the responsibility but Mahbubey Alam refused to do so. 'A day after, he asked me to continue with the treatment on our own,' he added.
The acting BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir at an iftar party blasted the attorney general for his remark about doing politics over dead bodies saying that it was the Awami League that was engaged in such politics.
'Politics of dead bodies is typical of the Awami League. The party has proved this several times. After the BNP had left office in 2006, it [the Awami League] killed a number of people with oars and sculls on the streets of Dhaka. Now the party says that we are engaged in politics of dead bodies,' he said.
The government implicated MU Ahmed in a false case, Fakhrul said. 'Ahmed was not even in Dhaka on the day the fracas took place in the High Court. But the government arrested him at his house and tortured him in custody.'
Khandakar Mahbub said that MU Ahmed's widow had filed a first information report with the police but it was yet to be recorded as a case. 'We will take action after the Supreme Court reopens or even during the Eid holidays,' he said.
As for attorney general's claim of being hurt at his allegation of doctoring MU Ahmed's inquest report comment and his plan for filing a defamation suit, Mahbub said, 'If he had gone there on humanitarian grounds, he could have informed us or taken the people of his party. He went there in his car and left in a police vehicle through the basement.'
'His activities made us doubtful. Why did he go there with a magistrate instead of his party people or us?' Mahbub said.
The Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Forum president, Rafiqul Islam Mia, also a BNP standing committee member, demanded a judicial inquiry to the death of MU Ahmed.
At a human chain of Jatiyatabadi Muktijuddher Prajanma, Rafiqul demanded punishment of all who are responsible for the death of MU Ahmed.
He asked the attorney general why he had gone to the hospital. 'You did not even offer condolences on the death of MU Ahmed.'
Source : New Age
