Justice for Munia, a platform seeking justice for college student Mosarat Jahan Munia’s rape and death, formed a human chair in front of the Supreme Court on Saturday protesting at the dismissal of the case against Bashundhara Group managing director Sayem Sobhan Anvir and eight of his associates.
The campaigners for Justice for Munia held the human chair at about 7:30am holding a banner on their chests, with slogans that the ‘main job of the law enforcers and the judiciary is to cover up crimes of the rich and powerful people’.
‘If it is not so then why they, even if finding evidence of the rape and the murder in the probe report, will clear the principal accused of the charges without his arrest and interrogation,’ said the campaigners.
Women rights activist Saydia Gulrukh, one of the campaigners for Justice for Munia, told New Age that they formed the human chain and posted the picture on social media to raise voice for Justice for Munia.
Saydia said that the platform had been campaigning for Justice for Munia for two years since the lower court cleared Sayem Sobhan Anvir of the charges after law enforcers gave a clean-shit to Sayem, the principal accused, and his associates.
On March 20, 2024, the Dhaka Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal 8 accepted the Police Bureau of Investigation’s probe report that cleared all the nine accused, including Sayem Sobhan Anvir, in a case filed on charges of rape and killing college student Mosarat Jahan Munia at Gulshan in April 2021.
Judge Shawkat Ali of the tribunal accepted the report rejecting the no-confidence petition submitted by Munia’s sister, Nusrat Jahan Tania, on the final report submitted by PBI clearing Anvir and other eight accused of the charges.
On September 6, 2022, Nusrat filed a no-confidence petition against the PBI report which was filed with the tribunal on October 19, 2023.
