A Dhaka court yesterday put BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on a fresh remand for three days in an arson attack case.
Metropolitan Magistrate Md Maruf Hossain passed the order after Kamal Krishna Saha, sub-inspector of Mohammadpur police station and the investigating officer of the case, produced him before the court with a seven-day remand petition.
It was the sixth time Rizvi had been remanded since his arrest from a Baridhara house on January 31 on charges of perpetrating violence and carrying out subversion.
The case was lodged in connection with an arson attack in Mohammadpur on January 17.
According to the case statement, a bus was torched on the day in front of the Ashulia embankment in Mohammadpur during the blockade imposed by the BNP-led 20-party alliance.
Sub-Inspector of Mohammadpur police station Nurul Islam filed the lawsuit against Rizvi for his alleged involvement in the incident.
Rizvi yesterday was taken to the court after the end of his two-day remand in another case, which was also filed with Mohammadpur police station in connection with setting ablaze a bus in Mohammadpur area during the blockade.
Defence counsel Md Sanaullah Miah filed a petition seeking bail for his client but the court dismissed it.
