The bail hearing of 153 BNP leaders and activists, including BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Standing Committee Member Mirza Abbas is set to take place on Monday.
The hearing will be held at the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court of Dhaka, reports Bangla Tribune.
On Sunday, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Standing Committee Member Mirza Abbas and five other members of BNP sought bail, in a case filed over planning and inciting an attack on policemen at Naya Paltan on December 7.
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Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Rezaul Karim Chowdhury set Monday for the hearing.
The five other BNP leaders are Abdus Salam, Khairul Kabir Khokon, Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Annie, Fazlul Haque Milon and Selim Reza Habib.
A DB team picked up the two senior BNP leaders from their homes at around 3am on Friday.
The police had brought them to the DB headquarters to question them about the clash on December 7 between BNP men and law enforcers.