Expelled BCL leaders denied bail, sent to jail
Two expelled Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leaders, who brandished guns during a hawker eviction in Gulistan last year, were denied bail and sent to jail yesterday after they surrendered before a Dhaka court in an attempted murder case.
Metropolitan Magistrate Md Sarafuzzaman Ansari passed the order. The court also fixed February 12 for hearing a seven-day remand prayer submitted by Sub-inspector of Shahbagh Police Station Emranul Islam, the investigation officer of the case, for quizzing the duo.
Former BCL general secretary of Dhaka city south unit Sabbir Hossain and former general secretary of the organsiation's Wari unit Ashiqur Rahman were seen firing during the October 27 clash between staff of Dhaka South City Corporation and hawkers in Gulistan that left 10 people, including two corporation employees, injured.
Earlier on December 4 last year, another Metropolitan Magistrate Md Khurshid Alam, who on November 17 granted them bail, issued the arrest orders as the two remained absent from that day's court proceedings.
In the bail order, the magistrate said the accused were granted bail as the charges brought against them were not specific. They were granted bail against a bond of Tk 3,000 each with two guarantors.
The same court ordered the officer-in-charge of Shahbag police to submit by January 8 a report on execution of the arrest warrants.
The picture of Sabbir and Ashiqur brandishing guns during the October 27 clash appeared in the media the next day.
Three days later, SI Abdul Mannan of Shahbagh police filed the case against the two and 50 to 60 unnamed people.
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