BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has held the government responsible for the death of BM Bakir Hossain, joint secretary of Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal, in police custody and termed it "clear violation of human rights and against the rule of law."
"The mysterious death of Bakir without treatment is not acceptable at all. The present government can't avoid the responsibility of this death. It's a clear violation of human rights and against the rule of law," Khaleda said in a statement yesterday.
She further said, "None is safe from the inhuman torture unleashed on the nationalist forces across the country during the tenure of the present government."
She demanded judicial inquiry into Bakir's "unnatural death" and hoped that the government would take immediate steps in this regard.
Bakir, president of Bangladesh Bank Employees Federation and member of the newly announced national executive committee of BNP, died in custody at the city's Apollo Hospital at about 2:30pm on Thursday.
Earlier, he was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital after he fell unconscious in jail on December 22.
