DHAKA: BNP standing member Barrister Moudud Ahmed alleged that the government sent Chief Justice SK Sinha on forced leave by forging his signature.

The BNP’s senior leader and also senior lawyer of the Bangladesh Supreme Court made the allegation while addressing a seminar at the National Press Club in the city on Thursday (October 05).

Shikkyak-Karmachari Oikya Jote, a pro-BNP platform of teachers and employees, arranged the seminar on the occasion of the World Teachers Day 2017.

Chairman of the platform Principal Selim Bhuiyan presided over the function, while Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman, Nagorik Oikya convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna, BNP vice Shaukat Mahmud and the party’s senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed also addressed it, among others.

Moudud Ahmed said that the Chief Justice was reluctant to go on the leave, but he was forced to go on one-month leave. The leave letter which was submitted to the President was not written by SK Sinha. The chief justice can’t make five spelling mistakes in a one-page letter. He did not seek leave. Even he is not ill, he claimed.

The BNP leader also claimed that the SK Sinha is not under house-arrest. The government killed the judiciary through performing such behavior with the judiciary chief, he said.

He also said that the conspiracy is going on to forcibly send the Chief Justice abroad.

Mahmudur Rahman Manna said that when the nation is unaware about the condition of Chief Justice, in such a situation there is no alternative to forge unity. “If we fail to be united, the country will be ruined,” he said.

BDST: 1625 HRS, OCT 05, 2017
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