Detective Branch (DB) of police yesterday pressed charges against 29 BNP leaders, including its acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam, in a case filed for violence in Dhaka city on March 2, 2013.
Investigation Officer Md Fazlur Rahman, a DB inspector, submitted the charges to Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Muhammad Anowar Sadat.
Taking the charges into cognisance, he ordered transferring the case document to Dhaka’s Sessions Judges Court for starting the trial.
Investigator Fazlur says he has dropped eight names from the case as no evidence could be found against them.
He says he has filed with the same court for issuing an arrest warrant against eight charge-sheeted accused who have been on the run while 21 others, including Fakhrul, have been on bail.
Thirty five people have been enlisted as witnesses. Eight bamboo stick, 15 pieces of bricks, 15 pieces of SUV broken glasses and five exploded cocktails shown as material evidence in the charge sheet, the investigation officer adds.
Apart from Fakhrul the charged are BNP Standing Committee members Moudud Ahmed, Mirza Abbas and Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, Joint Secretaries General Amanullah Aman and Barakatullah Bulu and Vice-Chairman Abdullah Al Noman.
BNP Students Affairs Secretary Shaheed Uddin Chowdhury Anne, Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) President Abdul Quader Bhuiyan Jewel, former JCD Presidents Sultan Salahuddin Tuku and Azizul Bari Hela have also been charged.
Swechchhasebak Dal President Habib-un-Nabi Khan Sohel and its General Secretary Mir Sharafat Ali Sapu and Jubo Dal President Moazzam Hossain Alal have been accused in the charge sheet.
Earlier on March 2, 2013, Ramna police station Sub-Inspector Ashfak Rajib Hasan filed the case and naming 29 BNP leaders and activists and not naming 1200 others in it.
The accused, according to the case, had prevented police from discharging their duties, attempted to kill police, vandalised and torched vehicles and exploded cocktail bombs creating panic at Shantinagar and Malibagh during a rally in the city that day.
