1 week Ago By Diana George
The arrest of Shariful Fakir, an illegal Bangladeshi immigrant accused of stabbing actor Saif Ali Khan, has taken a political turn with his father, Md Rohul Amin, vowing to make his son's "harassment" by Indian authorities a poll issue in the upcoming Bangladesh elections. Md Rohul Amin, a vice-president of the BNP in Bangladesh, insists that his son is innocent. "Police in India framed my son just because he has some similarities.
I am likely to contest in the rural local body elections, and there I will voice how police in India torture Bangladeshis," he told Times of India. "My son is a perfect example. Mumbai Police arrested my son as a suspect but he is not the one whose photograph the police had released.
He is an easy target just because he entered India illegally in April last year," he added. Amin, 55, revealed that he received a message from Shariful's legal aid lawyer on Friday, asking him to visit or call. "I will call him later in the night with all the relevant documents.
It's a tough fight but we will not budge," said Amin. Amin has also publicly rejected claims made by Mumbai Police, which stated that fingerprints at the crime scene matched Shariful's. While Amin believes the man in CCTV footage is not his son, Mumbai Police maintains their findings.
The father, who hails from Jhalokhathi district, said further, "During the Awami League regime, there was a lot of political turmoil, many of them went underground after Sheikh Hasina's govt came back to power early last year. My son, who was an active supporter of Khaleda Zia, was also facing immense backlash. So he had to leave Bangladesh.
Now that the situation has changed and that we will participate in the elections again, I will definitely make noise about my son's false arrest." Amin, who is actively seeking support from senior BNP leaders, plans to approach both the Indian High Commission and Bangladesh's external affairs office this Sunday. "My son is not a criminal.
Fear of life in Bangladesh and aspiration for a better future forced him to leave Bangladesh and enter India illegally, but he can never attack someone or enter someone's home to steal. Police in Mumbai are framing him just because he has some facial similarities with the suspect," claimed Amin. He added, "India is a big country where several people may look similar.
It defies logic that my son, who was in India for barely eight months, had the audacity to enter a celebrity actor's home and attack him and escape. Just because the relations between Bangladesh and India have been sour of late, my son has been made the scapegoat." Get Latest News Live on Times Now along with Breaking News and Top Headlines from India and around the world.
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