A Dhaka court yesterday sent three BNP senior leaders, including Standing Committee member Mirza Abbas and acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, to jail, rejecting their bail petitions in three cases.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shahriar Mahmud Adnan passed the order upon a petition filed by them.
Abbas, Fakhrul and Dhaka city unit Member Secretary Abdus Salam surrendered to the court and sought bail as the Appellate Division on March 9 scrapped their eight-week bail order, granted on January 20 by the High Court, and directed them to surrender to lowere court.
Protesting the court order, pro-BNP lawyers immediately brought out a procession on the court premises.
Earlier, another court granted bail to Fakhrul in two more cases.
Ramna police made the leaders accused in two cases filed in connection with the killing of a pedestrian by a bus after losing control as pickets hurled petrol bombs at it at Malibagh level crossing on December 1 during the BNP’s nationwide blockade; and the killing of a policeman in an arson attack on a bus at Banglamotor on December 24.
The other case was filed in connection with a petrol bomb attack on a bus at Paribagh crossing on January 3. A woman named Shahina Akther who was badly burnt in the incident succumbed to her injuries.
Protesting the bail rejection, the BNP at a press briefing declared to hold demonstrations across the country today.
