A Dhaka court has sent senior BNP leaders Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Mirza Abbas to jail ahead of the party's mass rally in the capital on Saturday.
The police produced them in Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Friday afternoon with a plea to keep them in jail until the charges against them were investigated.
The court order came as the BNP got permission from the Dhaka Metropolitan Police to hold its rally on the Golapbagh ground in the Sayedabad area of Dhaka.
Earlier in the day, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Standing Committee Member Mirza Abbas were arrested on charges of planning and inciting an attack on policemen at Naya Paltan.
A DB team picked up the two senior BNP leaders from their homes at around 3am on Friday.
