Charge framing hearing Nov 15

A Dhaka court yesterday fixed November 15 for the hearing on charge framing against 161 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir in connection with a case filed with Paltan police over the recent violence in the city's Kakrail area.
Of the accused, Jamaat acting secretary general ATM Azharul Islam and 154 other Jamaat and Shibir men are in custody while acting ameer Maqbul Ahmad and five others have been absconding.
Metropolitan Magistrate Asaduzzaman Nur of the Speedy Trial Court-14 yesterday set the hearing date directing jail authorities to produce the detained including ATM Azharul before it on the scheduled date.
Earlier in the day, police submitted to the court an advertisement, published in two Bangla national dailies recently ordering the fugitives to appear before it by yesterday. But, since they failed to comply with the court order, the trial against them would be held in absentia.
On September 19, several hundred Jamaat activists clashed with police in Kakrail, Bijoynagar and Shantinagar areas, leaving at least 100 people injured, setting fire to at least 28 vehicles and smashing over 200 others. They vandalised dozens of roadside shops and halted traffic for hours.
Two cases were filed with Paltan and Ramna police stations under the Speedy Trial Tribunal following the incident on charges of assaulting police.