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Published : 28 Apr 2025, 08:06 PM
Former law minister Anisul Huq has allegedly been assaulted by pro-BNP lawyers at a Narayanganj court.
The incident occurred at around 2:45pm on Monday.
According to Court Police Inspector Kaiyum Khan, Anisul was brought to the court of Senior Judicial Magistrate Moinuddin Kadir in Narayanganj for a remand hearing linked to the murder of Hafiz Solaiman, who was killed during the July Uprising.
Kaiyum confirmed that the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) requested seven-day custody to question Anisur, but the court remanded him for four days.
Journalists who witnessed the incident said Anisul had been brought to the courtroom where “pro-BNP lawyers” shouted slogans demanding a death penalty for him.
After the hearing, as Anisul exited the courtroom, the lawyers began slapping him. The former minister was wearing a police helmet during the attack as seen in footage captured by media personnel.
Seeing chaos unfold, police officers in charge of Anisul’s security swiftly escorted him away from the courthouse and placed him in a prison van.
While he was inside the prison van, the lawyers outside the court premises shouted: "We want the death penalty, we want the death penalty for Anisul Huq."
Prominent figures of the BNP, including metropolitan BNP convenor Advocate Sakhawat Hossain Khan, District Lawyers’ Association President and former Nationalist Lawyers Forum president Humayun Kabir, and Anwar Pradhan, general secretary of the Lawyers' Association, were seen leading the protests.
When asked about the incident, Kaiyum said: "As things fell into disarray after the hearing, police quickly took the accused into the prison van. However, I did not notice anyone hitting or slapping him."
Kabir denied any involvement in the assault.
He said, "We held a procession demanding the death penalty, but it was the public who slapped him. Why would lawyers hit him? There is public anger towards him, and it is from that anger that people have assaulted him."
