The advocate Palash Kumar Roy (34) is original of Panchagarh, one of the northernmost regions of Bangladesh.
He exercised his activities in Dhaka for the legal staff of the giant “Kohinoor Chemical Ltd.” Especially he dealt with the sale and purchase of land and real estate on behalf of the company.
According to the reports filed by the mother Mira Rani Roy, who is also a member of the Province Council (Upazilla Parishad), the company’s Managing Director, Mr. Md Rezaul Karim, would have asked Palash Kumar Roy to take possession fraudulently of a 11,350 square meters land. At the refusal of the lawyer – who contextually also resigned from his job as a protest – the company would have hired thugs in order to kidnap and get rid of him.
The kidnap attempt would take place on April 30, an aggression from which Palash Kumar Roy manages to escape and then he spends about two weeks as a fugitive, finding refuge, finally, to a family of friends in Dhaka, in the Manipuripara area.
The mother then files a case for abduction against the company and in particular at the name of the managing director, Mr. Md Rezaul Karim, to the Deputy Police Commissioner of Tejgaon and to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, under section 364/34 of the Penal Code, for abduction with background of persecution on religious minorities.
Simultaneously, the Kohinoor Chemical Ltd alerts the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), stating that the lawyer would have subtracted to the company about 35,000 euros and he would be now fugitive.
Friday, May 13 the RAB forces with an unexpected raid, find and arrest the advocate Palash Kumar Roy, terminating so his flight and hiding.
Now the issue will be clarified in the Bangladeshi courtrooms, confident that justice will prevail.
For a friend who was also a brother.