A case has been filed against veteran Awami League leader Tofail Ahmed and 85 others over allegations of foiling a Bangladesh Nationalist Party rally, opening fire and vandalising district the party office in the Bhola town in 2019.
Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal Bhola district unit leader Md Arif Hossain filed the case with the Bhola Sadar police station on Monday, said the police station officer-in-charge, Abu Shahadat Md Hussain Parvez.
鈥業t is the first case where Tofail Ahmed has been made the prime accused after the students-led mass uprising that overthrew the Sheikh Hasina-led regime on August 5.
He is also accused in a case over attacking former BNP Bhola-2 lawmaker Hafiz Ibrahim,鈥� the OC said, adding that all witnesses in the case are BNP leaders as they were victims.聽聽
He said that none was arrested so far in the case.
Tofail is an AL advisory council member.
Tofail served as the industry and commerce minister of the AL government from 1996 to 2001 and he also served as a commerce minister after the 2014 general election.
Tofail Ahmed was elected as a lawmaker several times from Bhola 1 and Bhola 2 constituencies.聽
According to the case statement, the other accused in the case include former AL Bhola 2 lawmaker Ali Azam Mukul, former AL Bhola 3 lawmaker Nurunnabi Chowdhury Shawon and former AL government deputy minister and Bhola 4 lawmaker Abdullah Al Islam Jakob, former AL Bhola district unit general secretary Mainul Hossain Biplab and former Bhola Sadar municipality mayor Moniruzzaman Monir.
On May 3, 2019, Bhola district unit BNP organised a rally in front of its party office at Mohajanpatti in the town demanding release of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and reduction in prices of essential commodities.
A meeting was held in the Tofail Ahmed鈥檚 house to foil the rally and the other accused executed the plan by opening fire with shotguns and vandalizing the party office, the case statement added.
Meanwhile, a Dhaka magistrate court on Wednesday showed nine people, including former ministers Anisul Huq, Hasanul Haque Inu, Rashed Khan Menon, and Zunaid Ahmed Palak, arrested in five fresh cases filed with three different police stations in Dhaka.
Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Md Imran Ahmed passed the order after investigation officers in the cases produced them before the court with petitions to show them arrested in the cases.
The five other accused are former principal secretary to the Prime Minister鈥檚 Office Nozibur Rahman, Awami League former lawmaker Sadek Khan, AL leaders Rokeya Jaman, Jamal Mostofa, and former police constable Shoaibur Rahman.
