Rizvi sent to jail

Ruhul Kabir Rizvi surrendered before the court in the morning. Metropolitan Session’s Judge Md Kamrul Hossain Molla passed the order after hearing the bail petition filed by Rizvi’s counsel Md Sanaullah Miah. Two of the cases were filed with Pallabi Police Station and one each with Ramna, Khilgaon and Motijheel police stations for carrying out subversive activities during hartals and blockade programme by the BNP-led 20-party alliance from January to March last year and 2013. Earlier, the same court issued an arrest warrant for Rizvi in the cases as the he did not appear before the court during the hearing. The same court asked 37 BNP leaders and activists, including its chairperson Khaleda Zia, to appear before it on October 3 in a case filed in connection with petrol bomb attack on a passenger bus in the capital’s Jatrabari area on January 23 last year that left a person dead and left 27 with burns.