Assistant Secretary General of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and former lawmaker Hamidur Rahman Azad has issued the following statement on 4th February, 2017 protesting against the false and baseless comment of Police’s Tejgaon Zone’s Deputy Commissioner Biplab Kumar Sarkar which he had made on 3rd February morning at the Mohammadpur police station claiming that the 28 pious and religious ladies who had been arrested from a house in Tajmohol road of Mohammadpur were plotting conspiracy in an illegitimate way through some subversive activities.

“In a press conference, Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Tejgaon Zone’s Deputy Commissioner Biplab Kumar Sarkar alleged that the 28 pious and religious ladies who had been arrested from a house in Tajmohol road of Mohammadpur were plotting conspiracy in an illegitimate way through some subversive activities. His comments are completely false and it is far away from true facts.

In this regard, our clear view is, the female detainees who had been arrested from a house in Mohammadpur gathered over there just to discuss the discourse of the holy Quran and Sunnah. Police has arrested them unjustifiably. They are entirely innocent. Police has caused intolerable repression against them by taking them into two day remand ignoring all sorts of human rights. I am urging the countrymen to raise voce against the repression and torture against these decent and pious female detainees.

Finally I am calling upon the concerned authorities to release all the detained females without any condition immediately.”