A total of 234 cases were filed against BNP leaders-activists in Dhaka city in three months in the lead up to the 12th general election. As many as 5500 names of leaders-activists were mentioned and 3000 more unnamed were implemented in these cases filed with different police stations of the capital.
The cases were filed over torching vehicles, obstructing police, attack, hurling crude bombs and carrying out sabotage between October and December. Most of the cases were filed by the police. These cases were filed to corner the BNP in the lead up to the national election. Cases were filed against BNP men this way before the 11th parliament election and many of the cases filed were fictitious, BNP leaders allege.
60 cases were filed against BNP leaders-activists in October, 133 in November and 41 in December. Many top BNP leaders including secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, standing committee members Mirza Abbas and Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury and leaders of central and Dhaka city units were arrested in these false cases.
A total of 27,000 leaders-activists of the party were arrested between the last week of October and the third week of January. 3,156 opposition men were arrested in Dhaka between 28 October and 1 December. Most of the BNP leaders-activists went into hiding in the face of stringent police raids at that time. a total of 738 cases were filed against BNP leaders-activists between 1 October and 7 January across the country.
The government unleashed an arrest spree and filed cases against the opposition men to hold a one-sided election.
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How do you say it is a false case
they have been arrested based on specific allegations