Four leaders of BNP's front organisations were shown arrested yesterday in a case filed after a driver, Badar Ali Beg, was burnt alive when his bus was set alight in the capital's Khilgaon on April 21.
The defendants are Jatiyatabadi Swechhasebak Dal President Habib-un-Nabi Khan Sohel and General Secretary Mir Sharafat Ali Safu, Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal President Sultan Salahuddin Tuku and Jubo Dal General Secretary Saiful Islam Nirob.
Sub-Inspector of Khilgaon Police Station, Moksedur Rahman, also the investigation officer (IO) of the case, produced them before a Dhaka court and sought a 10-day remand.
Police had re-arrested them at the Kashimpur Central Jail gate on Thursday night after they were released in an arson case filed for torching a bus in front of the Prime Minister's Office during the April 29 hartal.
Metropolitan Magistrate Harun-or-Rashid also fixed June 20 for hearing the remand prayer.