A Dhaka court yesterday rejected both a bail petition and a remand prayer for BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, in connection with a vandalism and arson case.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Hasibul Haque passed the order when Md Masud Munsi, sub-inspector of Paltan police station and also the investigation officer of the case, produced Rizvi before the court seeking a fresh 10-day remand for interrogation.
After hearing, the court also told the authority concerned that the BNP leader, if needed, could be interrogated at the jail gate by the next three working days. Rizvis’ counsel Md Sanaullah Miah filed the bail and remand rejection prayers before the court.
On June 8, the Paltan police filed a remand prayer with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court in a case accusing the BNP leader of instigating vandalism and arson attack on a bus.
On December 29 last year, some miscreants set a bus ablaze in the capital’s Paltan area during a countrywide non-stop blockade by the BNP-led 20-party alliance.
On the same day, Paltan police SI Abdul Malek Hawlader filed a case accusing 35 alliance leaders and activists including Rizvi. Law enforcers arrested the BNP leader from a house in Baridhara on January 31.
