Court rejects Pintu's bail prayer again

A Tangail court yesterday again rejected the bail petition of BNP central leader and former deputy minister Abdus Salam Pintu in an extortion case.
He was produced in the Senior Judicial Magistrate's Court in an extortion case. Senior Judicial Magistrate Sheuly Rani Das rejected the bail petition and sent Pintu to jail.
Local AL worker Zahidul Islam Bhuiyan alias Lebu filed the case against Pintu and 10 others with Bhuiyanpur Police Station on October 13 last year.
In the case statement, the complainant stated that a gang of 10 at the instruction of Abdus Salam Pintu stormed into zahidul's house on October 1, 2001 and demanded Tk 3 lakh from his wife Flora Begum.
As she refused to oblige, the gang vandalised the house and took away money and other valuables, the complainant added.
Pintu, one of the accused in the case for grenade attack on Awami League (AL) rally in the city on August 21, 2004, was brought to Tangail from Dhaka Central Jail in a prison van on Wednesday night.
Of the 10 other accused, eight were earlier granted bail by the High Court while and the rest two are now staying abroad, police said.
Anisul Islam, lawyer for Pintu, said the case was filed after 11 years of the so called incident to harass his client.