A Dhaka court yesterday granted police five days to question BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in an arson case.
Fakhrul was produced before the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Md Emdadul Haque on completion of his three-day remand in another arson case filed with Paltan police.
DB Sub-Inspector Anowar Hossain produced the BNP leader before the court seeking 10-day remand.
On the other hand, defence counsel Md Sanaullah Miah filed a remand rejection petition and sought bail for his client.
According to the case, the BNP-led 20-party alliance activists set a car on fire in Motijheel AGB Colony area on January 4. Police filed the case against 81 named and 20-30 suspected others including Fakhrul and top leaders of the party, President of Bangladesh Jatiya Party Andaleeve Rahman Partho and Jamaat-e-Islami acting president Md Mokbul Hossain under the Explosive Substances Act.
Now facing around 80 cases, Fakhrul was arrested on January 6 in front of the National Press Club.