Untold Facts

Toothless Clawless Spineless Bosses in Ivory Towers of Bangladesh

In a go on the ACC’s toothless and clawless pinch the spineless High Court Bench judges has dismissed 3 anti corruption cases filed years ago against the seating P.M. Sheikh Hasina on the 4th March. Her other ten cases are in all likely face the same fate in favor not because the cases had been all concocted but they are unsustainable against the all powerful woman having much more sharp biting teeth and claws. Her father had 14 but all were lost in the Jalao Porao or arson and burning in late 1960s.

Historically Hasina’s father happened to be the hero made mainly through profusely covered Calcutta based media propaganda but ended in fiasco in independent Bangladesh on the 15th August 1975 amidst all abuses for him, not least the appellation of Faraoh drowned in the Egyptian river Nile in pre-historic period. His fall was not without good many reasons but for oppressing the people, killing democracy, imposing one party absolute dictatorial rule of the BKSAL, extra judicial killing of thousands of imaginary political opponents, endless corruption causing deaths of thousands if not lakhs in man made famine (See Amartya Sen), etc. The people at one stage made him the leader and hero and yet again in all hurled abuses so much so that none recited the DOA, INNA LILLAH that every Muslim would obviously recite on hearing any Muslim’s death news.

In legal term the 15th August 1975 was clearly a mutiny and not any ordinary killing in terms of Cr. P.C. and so was supposed to enjoy indemnity. Hasina made the incident a murder case and abusing all power at her disposal as the P.M. during the first term and in 2009 onwards tamed the spineless judges the loyal puppets to obtain the verdict of ‘murder’ and license to execute the five detained in the prison to death on the blackest night of 27-28 January 2010. The same brand of spineless judges upheld the annulment of the 5th Amendment of the Constitution. What else the other bench could do except dismissal of 3 corruption cases against Hasina in a go? After all she is an angel! The rest ten cases of corruption against her would wither away soon in the same way.

I would have thought that if there is any seriousness and honesty by any involved in the matter in fixing up corruption earnings by stalwarts like Hasina, etc. there is a way out. Properties of the greater Sheikh family have to be taken honest account of. Hasina’s properties in cash and kind at home and abroad must take stock of through international intelligence agencies and qualified and honest farms of repute and integrity.

In 1971, the family of the great Sheikh was known to survive on a monthly donation of Taka ten thousand paid regularly by Pakistani capitalist Harun. That meant that Mujib had nothing of his own in cash for subsistence of the small family of four members- Hasina’s mother, her sister Rehana, Hasina herself and the youngest brother Russel. In fact, her father survived in early life from subsistence dole paid by Sohrawardy in Calcutta. He had neither any regularly paid job nor any income from paternal property. His foster father Sheikh Lutfar Rahman was a Mohrar/ record Supplier and lastly Peshkar, in all positions a very poorly paid lower class employee. Mujib had nothing from maternal grandfather side for his mother gave his birth as an unwed Hindu girl and then given to marriage by the girl’s father Chandi Das, a lawyer, to Sheikh Lutfar Rahman, who was then working as the Mohrar under him when the biological father Lawyer Arun Chakravarty refused to marry Gourbala Devi (Balaka), the mother. Through an affidavit No.118 dated 10.11.1923 at a Calcutta Magistrate Court Sheikh Lutfar Rahman adopted the three year old boy as his son and gave him the name Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (See, Jiban Smriti, Dhaka, 2006, P.643- author’s name not disclosed for security reasons).

Cleansing of the top politicians from corruption to me must be the first priority. Unless and until these big shots of the ivory towers are cleansed, there is hardly any hope for growing fresh biting teeth and claws for firm grip of the ACC, much less make spines of the judges stronger and unbreakable for administering justice fair, neutral and free from interference.
What must be needed further to do is to incorporate morality building curriculum in school reading materials and efficient implementation of such curriculum at all levels.

Author: BK Din