Arrest order for Fakhrul
A Dhaka court yesterday issued an arrest warrant for BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on charges of assaulting police and torching vehicles during an opposition blockade in 2012.
Metropolitan Magistrate Md Yunus Khan passed the order after accepting the charge sheet in the case.
Mirza Fakhrul is currently in Singapore for treatment, his lawyer Sanaullah Miah told The Daily Star yesterday afternoon. Initiatives for his bail would be taken on his return, he added.
In a statement last night, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia condemned the arrest warrant, saying it was issued “intentionally”.
She alleged the government made the move only to ruin the opposition, and the name of the BNP acting secretary general was previously not in the charge sheet.
According to the charge sheet, a group of opposition activists led by BNP leader Salauddin Ahmed torched several vehicles after blocking the Postogola-Narayanganj highway on December 9, 2012.
The opposition activists also attacked law enforcers and prevented them from discharging their duties. Mirza Fakhrul had directed them to commit the offences, it said.
Later in the day, the Kadamtali police filed the case against 77 opposition leaders and activists, including Salauddin Ahmed. Afterwards, Mirza Fakhrul was named in the first information report as an instigator.
On August 22 this year, police submitted the charge sheet against Fakhrul and 60 other leaders and activists of the then BNP-led 18-party alliance.
On that day, the investigation officer had appealed to the court for issuance of arrest warrant for Fakhrul and two BNP activists -- Mohammad Ali and Md Nasir Uddin.
The court yesterday also issued arrest warrant for the two as they did not appear before it.
Following the court order, Mirza Fakhrul's arrest warrant was sent to the Uttara Police Station as he lives in Uttara in the capital, according to sources.
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