Courts in Dhaka and Rajshahi sent four central leaders of Bangladesh Nationalist Party to jail yesterday.
A Dhaka court fixed March 23 for the bail hearing on three detained leaders — party’s acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, standing committee members Mirza Abbas and Abdus Salam.
Earlier on March 16, they were sent to jail after the court had rejected their bail petitions in connection with three separate cases filed with Ramna police station.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shahriar Mahmud Adnan gave the order when they surrendered before the court seeking bail.
Earlier on March 9, a five-member bench of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Muzammel Hossain scrapped the HC order that granted bail for eight weeks to five top BNP leaders, including the three.
Defence counsel Md Sanaullah Miah filed the criminal miscellaneous case against the bail order rejected by the metropolitan magistrate court.
The three cases were filed in connection with the killing of a policeman and three others in petrol bomb attacks during the anti-government protests from December last year to January this year.
On January 3, three passengers suffered serious burns in a petrol bomb attack on a public bus at Paribagh in the capital.
Later, two passengers, including a woman, died from their injuries at burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Rajshahi Metropolitan Magistrate Court-1 sent former mayor of Rajshahi City Corporation Mizanur Rahman Minu, also joint secretary of BNP, to jail yesterday in connection with attempt-to-police murder case, our district correspondent reports.
Judge Sidhartho Mondol cancelled Minu’s bail prayer and sent him to jail.
On June 4 in 2011, BNP brought out a procession led by Minu, but police stopped them at Shaheb Bazar zero point that led a clash between cops and BNP men.
During the clash, Boalia police station officer-in-charge Khan Mohammad Shahriar was injured by bullet.
Sub-inspector Jahangir Alam lodged a case against BNP and Jamaat men.
On February 3 this year, police pressed charges against 130 BNP men, including Minu and city BNP secretary Shafiqul Haque Milon. Minu surrendered before the court at noon yesterday and sought bail, but the court sent him to jail.