A Dhaka court on Sunday placed eight people, including BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Miah Golam Parwar and former vice president of the Dhaka University Central Students' Union (Ducsu) Nurul Haque Nur, on remand for five days in a case lodged for vandalizing the Kazipara metro rail station in the capital's Mirpur.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Moinul Islam passed the order as police pleaded to show the accused arrested in the case and place them on a 10-day remand.
The other remanded accused are BNP leaders Qazi Sayedul Alam Babul, Aminul Haque, Sultan Salauddin Tuku, MA Salam and activist Mahmudus Salehin.
According to the case documents, a mob of 5,000-6,000 people ransacked the station from 4pm to 7pm on July 19.
They plundered expensive equipment and broke all the glasses, screens and ticket vending machines, among other things.
The investigating officer in his remand plea said the station suffered a loss of around Tk100 crore, adding that and the arrestees took part in the anarchy as per their conspiracy to destabilize and ultimately topple the government.
