A Dhaka court yesterday deferred the indictment hearing against BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir as well as some 45 leaders and activists of 20-party alliance in a case launched on charge of setting fire to a vehicle near the Prime Ministers Office in the capital two years ago.
Metropolitan Magistrate Md Ataul Haque announced deferral and fixed January 29 for the hearing following a time petition filed by defence counsel Md Sanaullah Miah.
The defence counsel filed the petition mentioning that most of the accused could not appeared before the court due to countrywide hartal called by Jamaat-e Islami.
The accused included BNP standing committee members MK Anwar, Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Mirza Abbas, Gayashwar Chandra Roy, Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Jamaat-e Islami acting Ameer Makbul Ahmed, Bangladesh Jatiya Party (BJP) Chairman Andaleeve Rahman Partho.
According to the case statement, the accused torched a vehicle in front of the PMO during the April 29 hartal in 2012 and that year DB Inspector Md Nurul Amin submitted the charge sheet of the case.
