DHAKA: BNP vice-chairman and former chancellor Abdus Salam Pintu, who reportedly aided a Pakistan-based extremist party in carrying out strikes against India, was released from Bangladesh’s Kashimpur Central Jail on Tuesday in a situation related to the 2004 rocket attack on Sheikh Hasina’s march. He had spent almost 17 years in jail.
Pintu, a former assistant minister, was arrested in connection with the rocket attack on the Awami League protest, which killed 24 people and injured through 300. The harm is regarded as one of the most terrible political offences in Bangladesh’s history. On Oct 10, 2018, a trial judge sentenced Pintu and 18 others to suicide in the case.
His release from jail is a result of the HC’s indictment order.
Besides facing allegations of aiding the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami ( HuJI ) to carry out terror attacks in India, Abdus is also accused of funding terrorists from PoK and Bangladesh. But, there was no official confirmation of information that Abdus had supported the HuJI and funded terrorist organizations.
