BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has termed the life-term imprisonment verdict against the party’s central assistant organising secretary Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu in connection with BDR mutiny as mockery and politically motivated. As part of a deep-rooted conspiracy, the government has implicated Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu, joint convener of Dhaka City unit BNP, in connection with the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) mutiny that took place its Pilkhana headquarters on February 25 in 2009, he said.
Describing the case as false, Alamgir said that the government has awarded life-term imprisonment against Pintu in a bid to shift its failure to curb the mutiny. Alamgir however did not want to make any comments about the overall verdict in this regard as well as the trial procedures.
He was addressing a press conference at the party’s Naya Paltan central office in the capital on the second day of the 60-hour nationwide hartal. Responding to a query, Alamgir said, “I am not interested to make any comments about the overall verdict of the BDR mutiny as it is not our business. We are just telling that Pintu has been punished unjustly.”
“We condemned the verdict and at the same time we demand his immediate unconditional release,” he added.
It may be pointed out that, a court in Dhaka on Tuesday awarded death to 152 and life imprisonment to 161 others including BNP leader Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu for their role in the February 2009 carnage at Pilkhana.
-With The Independent input
