A Dhaka court on Saturday sent BNP's Publicity Secretary Shahiduddin Chowdhury Anee to jail after a four-day remand in a case lodged over obstructing police to perform their duties and vandalizing vehicles in the city's Dhanmondi area in May this year.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mamunur Rashid passed the order after the investigation officer (IO) produced Anee before the court on completion of his four-day remand in the case and pleaded to keep him behind the bars till the end of investigation in the case.
Earlier, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rashidul Alam granted the four-day remand on Wednesday as police produced Anee before the court and pleaded to place him on a seven-day remand.
Police arrested the BNP leader from Dhanmandi area in the early hours on Wednesday in the case filed with Dhanmandi police station over obstructing police to conduct their duties and vandalizing vehicles.
According to the case documents, leaders and activists of BNP, on May 23, brought out a rally in front of the Dhaka City College in Dhanmandi.
Armed with local weapons, sticks and crude bombs, they obstructed police from performing their duties, attacked the law enforcers, vandalized vehicles and blasted cocktails.