BNP rejects investigation report on minority torture after 2001 election

Opposition BNP rejected the investigation report of a judicial commission on torture on minority in post-poll violence of 2001 general election terming it 'totally one sided and biased', reports UNB. BNP leader Barrister Moudud Ahmed made the party's formal reaction turning down the report while addressing a press briefing at party's Nayapaltan central office Friday. The report was made only to politically undermine BNP as well as to tarnish the image of many high ranking leaders of the party, he said. The former Law Minister said the government again showed its vindictive attitude to BNP through this report. He said after 2001 general election some violence incidents took place, but those were political incidents. A three-member judicial commission was formed following a directive of High Court in 2009 to investigate the allegation of torture on minority in post-election violence. The commission, which formally started its work in February last year, submitted its report to the Home Minister on April 24. It was learnt that many senior leaders of BNP and Jama'at-e-Islami were accused in the report for torture on the members of minority community following the general election in 2001. BNP leaders Barrister Rafiqul Islam Mia, Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, Mirza Abbas, Altaf Hossain, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Barrister Shahjahan Omar were present at the press briefing.