Former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar used to avoid Joj Miah when both of them were in Kashimpur jail during the last caretaker government rule.
"I had talks with almost everyone in the jail during that time, except for the former state minister for home, who always avoided talking to me," Joj Miah told The Daily Star in an exclusive interview on Wednesday.
"I wanted to ask him why he sought to meet me during my remand and to seek his help for getting out of the jail as their government falsely arrested me in connection with the August 21 grenade attack," he said.
He said when he was in Criminal Investigation Department (CID) office on 15 days' remand, the then CID official Ruhul Amin told him that Babar wanted to meet him.
"But the state minister did not meet me," he said.
According to Joj Miah, during his days in Kashimpur jail BNP leader Mossadeq Ali Falu, Awami League (AL) leaders Mohammad Nasim and Obaidul Quader spoke to him but BNP leader Babar refrained from talking to him.
Babar was arrested in 2007 and was in jail during almost the whole tenure of the caretaker government.
The former state minister, now in jail, is an accused in the Aug 21 grenade attack case.
Joj Miah was arrested in 2005 in connection with the August 21 grenade attack on an Awami League rally on Bangabandhu Avenue in 2004 that claimed lives of 24 AL leaders and workers and maimed 300 others.
The prime target of the attack was AL President and now-Premier Sheikh Hasina, who narrowly escaped the worst consequence with an ear injury. Joj Miah was cleared of the charges through investigation in 2008 and was released in 2009.
While in jail, he took chances to have a talk with Babar, said Joj Miah, adding that he even sent a message through jail staff requesting Babar to allow him to talk with him. But he was told, "Sir [Babar] would not talk to you as there are some complications."
One day, Joj Miah also tried to talk to Babar face to face when the former state minister was taken to the court. Asked by Joj Miah he said, "Later."
Source : The Daily Star
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