Complaint filed in court over attack on BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul

A pro-BNP lawyer in Chittagong has filed a complaint over Sunday's attack on BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir's motorcade.

The plaintiff, Md Enamul Haq, is a former general secretary of the Chittagong Bar Association.

The case under Sections 4 and 5 of the Speedy Trial Law 2002 (revised in 2014) was filed on Wednesday before Chittagong Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate ASM Shahidullah Kaisar.

The court ordered the Police Bureau of Investigation or PBI to launch a probe and submit its findings by Jul 18.

Twenty-six suspects have been named in the case. Twenty-five to thirty other unnamed suspects have also been accused.

The named suspects are Rangunia residents and involved with the local Awami League, said Enamul Haq.

“The attack, instigated by the government, was aimed to destroy the BNP's leadership,” he said. “The court is considering the matter.”

Mirza Fakhrul’s motorcade came under attack on Jun 18 when he was on its way to Rangamati to visit the victims of the recent landslides.

The seven-member delegation started from Chittagong for Rangamati's Kaptai. They were scheduled to board a vessel from there for the hill tract district town.

BNP leader Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury has accused Awami League leader Hasan Mahmud of carrying out the attack.

Mahmud, the local MP and the ruling party's publication secretary, in turn, accused the motorcade of getting into an altercation with locals after an accident and later suggested BNP's internal feud was responsible for the violence.