The Chattogram District Bar Association has demanded immediate transfer of the case involving the murder of lawyer Saiful Islam Alif to a speedy trial tribunal.聽
The demand was made at a human chain organised by the association on the Chattogram court premises on Wednesday afternoon.聽
Addressing the gathering, Chattogram District Bar Association president Nazim Uddin said that Chimmoy Krishna Das instigated violence before he was sent to jail in a sedition case.聽
After being placed in a prison van, Chimmoy Das used the police microphone to incite his supporters, triggering a series of violent incidents and Alif was killed in an attack by his supporters near the court premises on November 26.
鈥榃e, as an association, are determined not to back down until justice is meted out. Many of those responsible for Alif鈥檚 murder are still at large. We are urging the authorities to ensure arrest those involved and transfer the case to a speedy trial tribunal without delay,鈥� general secretary of the association, Muhammad Ashraf Hossain Chowdhury Razzak, said.
鈥榃e urge the government to take decisive action against the ISKCON miscreants responsible for this brutal killing,鈥� he said.
Senior vice-president Mohammad Abdul Quader, vice-president Md Mahfuzur Rahman, and other members of the association also addressed the programme.
A total of six cases were filed so far over the incidents centring the lawyer murder near the court premises in Chattogram city.
Charges in these cases included, among others, obstructing government officers in the course of their duty and vandalism.
Of the six cases, three have been filed by the police, victim families filed two cases, and a businessman filed the rest one. Altogether 40 people have been arrested in connection with the killing of Saiful.
