BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and 13 other BNP leaders and activists have been sued for a crude bomb attack on a rally in Dhaka on Monday led by the shipping minister.
Gulshan OC Rafiqul Islam confirmed about the case being filed to the Dhaka Tribune.
“Sramik Oikya Parishad leader Ismail Hossain Bachchu filed the case with Gulshan police station at 2am on Tuesday,” he said.
The case statement reads, BNP chief Khaleda Zia and 13 others are accused in the case for an attack, attempt to murder, terrorism and bomb explosions.
Other accused BNP leaders and activists include Vice Chairmen Selima Rahman and Hafiz Uddin Ahmed, Khaleda’s advisor Khandaker Mahbub Hossain, Joint Secretary General Salahuddin Ahmed, Chairperson’s Press Secretary Maruf Kamal Khan, Khaleda’s personal secretaries Shamsur Rahman, Shimul Biswas, and former MP Dewan Salahuddin, BNP women’s front leader Shirin Sultana, and former Dhaka City Corporation Commissioner Abdul Kaiyum, Mostafa, Mamun, and Manik.
At least seven people sustained injuries when two crude bombs went off in the middle of a procession, organised by Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan, in the highly guarded Gulshan area in the capital on that Monday.