A Dhaka court has sent Shawkat Mahmud, president of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) and aslo an adviser to the BNP chairperson, to jail in an arson case filed with Ramna police station.
Metropolitan Magistrate Md Waez Kuruni Khan Chowdhury passed the order after Shawkat was produced before the court in completion of three-day remand on Saturday afternoon.
No bail petition was filed in favour of the journalist leader.
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According to the case documents, a group of BNP led-20-party men on January 9, hurled a petrol bomb on a private car in the capital’s Moghbazar, leaving its driver injured with burns. Later, the driver, Abul Kalam Azad, succumbed to his injuries on January 15.
In this connection, Sub-inspector Md Atiqur Rahman Biswas filed a case accusing 13 leaders and activists of BNP lead alliance with Ramna police station.
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On August 18, detectives arrested Shawkat Mahmud from in front of Samarai Convention Centre in the capital’s Panthapath. The police said he was arrested in connection with three cases filed with Jatrabari and Ramna police stations on charges of arson attacks on vehicles, vandalising vehicles and crude bomb blasts.
