Khoka denied bail, sent to jail in two cases

BNP Vice-president Sadeque Hossain Khoka was sent to jail yesterday, after two Dhaka courts rejected his bail in a sedition and a murder case.
The courts passed the order after investigators produced the BNP leader before the courts and sought a 20-day remand in the cases.
Rejecting the remand prayers, the courts asked the investigators to interrogate Khoka at the jail gate within 10 days.
Paltan police filed the sedition case on December 7, against Khoka for provoking party men to go for violence during a conference in  Naya Paltan’s Bhasani Auditorium on October 14.
The other case was filed by Sutrapur police after a man was killed, as miscreants set fire to a human hauler in front of Victoria Park in old Dhaka on November 9.
Earlier on December 4, Khoka was arrested and placed on a two-day remand in a case filed with Paltan and Shahbagh police stations for setting fire to a bus that killed four people and injured 15 others.
He was also shown arrested in another case filed with Ramna Police Station for setting a bus alight at Malibagh that killed a passenger in November.
Khoka was interrogated at the jail gate in another arson case filed with Tejgaon Police Station.
Meantime, Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal general secretary Habibur Rashid Habib was placed on a 16-day remand yesterday in nine cases filed with different police stations for creating anarchy, violence and vandalising vehicles in the capital on different dates.
Several Dhaka courts passed the orders after Habib was produced with a 90-day remand petition in the cases.
The courts fixed December 29 for hearing on a 50-day remand in five cases filed against him over the May 5 Hefajat-e Islam mayhem in the capital’s Paltan.