A court here on Thursday placed 15 leaders and activists of BNP and its student wing Jatiyatabadi Chatra Dal on two-day remand each in a case lodged over clash with police in capital's Naya Paltan area on October 26.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Asheq Imam passed the order as police produced 50 BNP men before the court and pleaded to place 15 of them on a seven-day remand. The law enforcement agency also pleaded to keep 35 others behind bars till the end of the probe in the case.
The court, however, adjourned the hearing till Thursday as the proceedings were suspended in honor of eminent lawyer Abdul Baset Majumder, who died yesterday morning.
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The 15 remanded accused are Abu Sufian, Jihadul Haque Ronju, Jhalak Miah, Abu Hanna Talukder, Al Imran, Shahadat Hossain, Sajib, Habibur Rahman Habib, Atikur Rahman Apu, Hasan Ali, Mutasim Billah, Gazi Sultan Jewel, Rezaul Islam Prince, Shukkur and Abul Hossain Hawlader Ashiq.
BNP organized a peace rally on Tuesday in protest of recent communal violence across the country. But the party activists turned violent when the law enforcers barred them from going outside the Naya Paltan area.
Police later detained 50 BNP men in connection with the clash and filed the case against 97 leaders and activists of the party.