A Dhaka court has rejected the bail petition of Awami League MP Pinu Khan's son Bakhtiar Alam Rony in a case filed over killing two people on Dhaka street.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Aminul Haque on Tuesday afternoon sent the accused to jail, rejecting his bail plea.
Earlier on April 13, Yakub Sikder, driver of a CNG-run auto-rickshaw of the daily Janakantha, and Abdul Halim, a rickshaw-puller, received bullet injuries when Rony fired at people indiscriminately in Dilu Road on that night.
Halim died on April 15 while Yakub succumbed to his injuries on April 23 while undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Halim’s mother Monowara Begum filed the case with Ramna police station on April 15. It was then shifted to the Detective Branch of police on May 24.
Detectives arrested Rony from his Elephant Road residence on May 31. On June 1, a Dhaka court granted the DB police four days to interrogate Rony. After he pretended to be sick, interrogation finally began on June 9.
