A Rajshahi court yesterday rejected the bail petitions of 5 BNP-Jamaat men and sent them to jail in connection with the police constable Siddhartha Sarker murder case.
The convicts are district unit BNP advisor Shaheen Showkot, its vice-president Tofazzol Hossain Topu, Juba Dal convener Anowar Hossain Ujjol, activist Jamil and Jamaat city unit acting secretary-general Mohammod Jahangir.
Judge Ashraful Islam of Metropolitan Daira Judge Court, passed the order after they surrendered before the court in the afternoon and sought bail.
Earlier, on February 24, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court rejected the bail petitions of 36 BNP leaders and activists and sent them to jail in relation to the same case.
On December 26, 2013, Siddhartha died after he, along with eight others, was wounded after miscreants hurled several crude bombs at a police car in Rajshahi city while the BNP-led alliance was holding a procession.
Siddhartha succumbed to his injuries at the Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka after being flown from Rajshahi to the capital.
The police filed two separate cases against Mosaddek Hossain Bulbul, BNP joint secretary general Mizanur Rahman Minu, Jamaat city unit secretary general Mohammod Jahangir and 485 others on the charge of killing the police constable.