AG can form cell to help block militant suspects' bail: Anisul
Law Minister Anisul Huq yesterday said the attorney general (AG) can form a coordination cell to take necessary steps to stop bail of militant suspects and their release from jail.
There are many deputy and assistant attorneys general under the attorney general and a coordination cell can be formed headed by an additional attorney general, he said when he went to visit the condition of a building of chief prosecutor's office of International Crimes Tribunal in Dhaka.
The law minister said he will talk to the attorney general on this issue.
While talking to reporters on July 19, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam stressed forming such a coordination cell.
Yesterday, replying to a question, Anisul Huq said he will not withdraw his statement about a lower court judge being influenced in acquitting BNP leader Tarique Rahman in a money laundering case.
He said he will elaborate it at a press conference tomorrow.
Anisul Huq on July 21 said Tarique got acquitted in the case at the trial court by influencing its judge.
The judge (Motahar Hossain of Dhaka Special Judge's Court-3) along with his family members left for Malaysia a few days after he delivered the judgment, acquitting Tarique in November 2013, he said.
The minister also said the government issued a notice asking him to get back to work, but he did not respond.
Earlier yesterday, Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Forum demanded that the law minister withdraw his statement.
The leaders of the pro-BNP lawyers' platform protested the law minister's comment saying that the judge, Motahar Hossain, did not go abroad immediately after acquitting Tarique.
Judge Motahar Hossain had discharged his judicial duties for around one and a half months after delivering the judgement on Tarique. Then he went into retirement and later went to Malaysia, AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon, secretary of the forum, said at a press conference at the Supreme Court Bar Association auditorium in Dhaka.
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