BNP Leader Murder
Baraigram AL again demands release of 27 party men
Awami League Baraigram upazila and Bonpara municipal units yesterday took out a procession at Bonpara Bazar and held a press conference at local AL office demanding release of 27 party men arrested on charge of killing upazila chairman and local BNP leader Sanaullah Noor Babu.
Addressing the press conference, Abdul Quddus, AL lawmaker from Baraigram-Gurudaspur constituency, said Babu was killed over intra-party feud, not by the AL men.
"Babu came under attack during a clash between two rival groups of local BNP at Bonpara Bazar on October 8 last year and Zakir Hossain, Khokan Mollah and others AL activist were trying to save him,” the lawmaker claimed.
A few days before the incident, Babu lodged a general dairy (GD) with local police station, stating that Baraigram upazila BNP President Principal Ekramul Alam threatened to kill him. So, he was murdered due to intra-party rivalry, the lawmaker told the press conference.
He demanded immediate withdrawal of the case and release of all 27 AL men.
On October 8 last year, Awami League activists attacked a BNP procession at Bonpara Bazar and beat Sanaullah Noor Babu dead. At least 30 BNP men, including the then Bonpara municipality mayor Ishaq Ali and three local journalists, were injured in the attack.
Babu's wife Mohua Noor filed a murder case with Baraigram Police Station against 27 AL men the following day.
On November 20, a Natore court rejected the bail prayers of all 27 accused in the murder case and sent them to jail.
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