Dhaka, Sept 2 (UNB)- Supreme Court Bar Association president Khandker Mahbub Hossain on Thursday termed false and fabricated confessions reportedly made by ex-PM Khaleda Zia’s personal secretary Saiful Islam Duke about Tarique Rahman’s involvement in the August 21 grenade attack is false.

“He (Duke) did not make any such confessional statement,” he told reporters at the BNP central office.

Mahbub Hossain said statements being made by different ministers and public prosecutors that Tarique was involved in the grenade attack are completely false, fabricated and baseless. He claimed that Tarique’s name is nowhere either on CID report or police forwarding.

The SCBA president urged the media to refrain from dishing out false campaign against Tarique, the senior Vice-chairman of BNP.

He cautioned that if police do not stop making such false propaganda against Tarique, criminal proceedings will be drawn against them.

Mahbub Hossain alleged that the police have been trying to collect untrue statement about Tarique by torturing the arrested BNP leaders.

BNP leader Barrister Rafiqul Islam Mia, SCBA secretary Barrister Badruddoza Badal, Dhaka Bar Association president Sanaullah Mia and Adv Masud Talukdar were, among others, present at the press briefing.