25 BNP men sent to jail in explosives case

A Tangail court yesterday sent 25 leaders and activists of Ghatail upazila units of BNP and its different associate bodies to jail in a case filed under Explosive Substances Act last year.

Earlier, Ashulia police detained them on their way to the BNP rally in Dhaka on Wednesday morning and handed them over to Ghatail Police Station early yesterday.

Ghatail police produced them before the court of Ismat Ara, a senior judicial magistrate in Tangail, in the afternoon, which sent them to jail.

Faruk Hossain Dhala, general secretary of Ghatail upazila unit of BNP, said the party's men, led by former lawmaker Lutfar Rahman Khan Azad, were on their way to join the Dhaka rally on buses on early Wednesday when they got arrested.

OC Lokman Hossain of Ghatail Police Station said the case was filed accusing over a hundred BNP men, named and unnamed, in connection with the recovery of seven crude bombs from venue of a meeting of BNP's Digor union unit in Kastala area on November 22 last year.