A Dhaka court yesterday rejected the bail petitions for BNP Vice-Chairman and former mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka of Dhaka City Corporation and the party standing committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed in separate cases.
The court, however, directed the police to interrogate the duo at jail gate within five and three working days respectively.
A case was filed against Khoka with Jatrabari police station in connection with vandalism and arson attack on vehicles and attempt to murder cops.
On the other hand the Anti-Corruption Commission charged Barrister Moudud with occupying government land worth Tk300crore in Gulshan.
Metropolitan Magistrate Md Mostafizur Rahman passed the order on Khoka when investigation officer of the case Mominul Haque Chowdhury produced the leader before the court, seeing a 10-day remand.
Defence counsel Md Sanaullah Miah moved the case for the BNP leader who was arrested from the capital’s Uttara area on December 4 last year.
Moudud’s bail application was rejected after ACC Deputy Director Md Harunur Rashid submitted a plea to the court of Dhaka second additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate.
Defence counsel Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokon and Masud Ahmed Talukder moved the bail plea for Moudud.
Opposing the bail petition, ACC lawyer Mosharraf Hossain Kajal said Moudud’s Gulshan home was shown as abandoned property in the gazette published on October 21, 1972.
He claimed that the house still belonged to the state.
On December 17, the ACC deputy director filed the case with Gulshan police station against Moudud and his brother Manjur Ahmed for occupying the government land worth Tk300crore in Gulshan.