By Our Correspondent
NEW DELHI/BHUBANESWAR: The Rights & Risks Analysis Group (RRAG) today filed a complaint with the UN Special Rapporteur on Independence of Judges and Lawyers and Special Rapporteur on Minorities against false prosecution of 116 Hindu minority persons, mainly lawyers practicing at the Chittagong District and Sessions Court, Bangladesh through a false complaint filed by one Mr Khane Alam on 27 November 2024.
The false complaint alleged that while producing ISKCON spokesperson and Hindu monk Krishna Das arrested for false sedition charges before the court in Chittagong for bail, these Hindu minorities along with 400-500 unidentified persons gave slogans and attacked the mosques and Muslims who were praying with deadly weapons and created terror in the minds of the people from 2.05 pm to 3.30 pm on 26 November. In reality, the Hindus were attacked.
“The complaint filed by Khane Alam is false and fabricated, and it has been filed for malicious prosecution of the Hindu minority lawyers with the sole aim to further deny and destroy legal defence of the Hindu minorities. It is not possible for one particular complainant to identify 116 persons allegedly participating in a protest and further find their personal details.
As the justice system has been weaponized and the process is the punishment in itself, the false and fabricated complaint has been filed targeting the Hindu lawyers to deny the right to equality before law and equal protection of the law to the minorities as guaranteed under Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.”- stated Mr Suhas Chakma, Director of the Rights & Risks Analysis Group.
The Interim Government of Bangladesh has intensified attacks on the minorities. On 25 November 2024, the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for the Commonwealth of the British Parliament had written to British Foreign Secretary David Lammy as to how the UK could be pulled into another global flashpoint over the rapidly destabilising situation in Bangladesh after recording more than 2,000 atrocities against religious minorities and weaponisation of the legal system to exact revenge since the fall of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government on 5 August.
The RRAG urged the UN Special Rapporteurs to intervene with the Interim Government of Bangladesh to stop false prosecution of 116 Hindu minority persons, mainly lawyers practicing at the Chittagong District and Sessions Court, Bangladesh based on the false complaint of one Khane Alam and provide protection of the law to the Hindu minorities.
