BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday was sued in a new arson case in Comilla.
This was the second case filed against the BNP chief since the blockade began on January 6.
Forty-seven activists, 15 of them unidentified, of the BNP and the Jamaat-e-Islami were also accused in the case filed by Sub-Inspector of Chouddogram police station Nuruzzaman.
Police arrested Shibir activist Faruk Miaji of Chandishkora village of the upazila and sent him to jail under the case.
Officer-in-Charge of the station Uttam Kumar Chakrabarty said a group of miscreants torched a Chittagong-bound covered van on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway in the Haidarpul area of Chouddogram upazila on Sunday.
Following the incident, SI Nuruzzaman filed the case against the 47 BNP-Jamaat activists and also accused Khaleda Zia as an instigator.
