Fakhrul denied bail again
A Dhaka court yesterday again rejected two bail petitions of BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in as many cases for torching vehicles during the opposition's road blockade this month.
The Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court refused the prayers filed challenging an earlier denial of bail by another court.
On December 11, the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court rejected two bail petitions by Fakhrul in the same cases and sent him to jail.
During the hearing yesterday, defence counsels claimed that the cases filed against Fakhrul were false as a political leader like him cannot vandalise a waste disposal truck.
Opposing the bail petitions, the prosecution said the accused was the key planner of acts of sabotage centring the opposition's road blockade on December 9.
The BNP-led 18-party alliance enforced the blockade demanding restoration of the caretaker government system. Police on the same day filed the cases with Paltan and Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Stations.
The following day, law enforcers arrested the BNP leader before the party's central office at Nayapaltan. The arrestee is now in Kashimpur jail in Gazipur.
Fakhrul has been put behind bars twice during the tenure of the incumbent government.
On May 15, he was sent to jail in an arson case. He walked free on bail granted by the High Court.
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