A court in the district yesterday sent BNP standing committee member MK Anwar to jail rejecting his bail petition in a case filed in connection with petrol bomb attack on a bus in Chouddogram upazila under the district on February 3.
Sources said Anwar appeared before the session court-5 and pleaded for his bail.
Senior Judicial Magistrate Shahidullah Kaiser passed the order after hearing, said Anwar’s lawyer Md Harunur Rashid.
On February 3, eight people were killed in a petrol bomb attack on a bus at Chouddogram upazila.
Later, Sub-inspector Nuruzzaman Hawladar of Chouddogram police station filed two cases against 56 persons in this connection under the Explosives Substance Act.
MK Anwar along with its chairperson Khaleda Zia, standing committee members Barrister Rafiqul Islam Mian and joint secretary general Rizvi Ahmed, were indicted in one of the two cases for instigating the petrol bomb attack.
