A Dhaka court yesterday rejected the bail pleas of BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi and BNP leader ASM Hannan Shah.
Dhaka Metropolitan Session Judge Md Jahurul Haque passed the order after rejecting the bail pleas in two cases against Hannan filed with Motijheel police station and a case against Rizvi with Paltan police station.
Defence counsel Md Sanaullah Miah, in the plea, claimed that Rizvi and Hannan were not involved in the respective cases, and alleged that police had involved them in politically motivated cases.
Claiming that the BNP leaders were victims of the political situation, Sanaullah appealed for their bails, saying these senior leaders were sick and aged person.
Sanaullah told the Dhaka Tribune: ‘‘They will go to the High Court for their bail against this bail rejection order.”
On November 25, Detective Branch of Police detained Hannan Shah near the Japanese Embassy in the capital.
On November 30, plainclothes police arrested Rizvi at BNP Nayapaltan central office two days after 19 people suffered burn injuries when miscreants set fire on a bus at Shahbagh in the capital.