Fakhrul, Moudud, 8 others seek bail

Police take eight BNP leaders away as three separate Dhaka courts reject their bail petitions and order to send them in jail. Photo: Focus Bangla

Ten BNP leaders, including its acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, sought bail on Tuesday in seven cases filed for torching vehicles, assaulting police and preventing them from discharging their duties during opposition agitations.

Police filed the cases with Paltan, Ramna and Shahjahanpur police stations in the capital on December 9, 2012, and March 2 and 6, 2013.

Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md Zahirul Haque decided to hear the bail petitions on April 21.

The BNP leaders sought bail challenging the legality of the rejection orders by three separate chief metropolitan magistrates' courts.

The courts on April 7 rejected their bail petitions and ordered to eight, out of the 10, to sent jail. Two other accused - joint secretary generals Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed and Amanullah Aman - are in jail custody in another two cases.

Of the eight leaders, Moudud Ahmed, Mirza Abbas and Goyeshwar Chandra Roy are members of the national standing committee of BNP. Barkatullah Bulu and Shahiduddin Chowdhury Annee are party’s lawmakers and Abdullah Al Noman and Moazzem Hossain Alal are vice-chairman of BNP and chief of its young front Jubo Dal.