No bail, no remand for Goyeshwar

A Dhaka court yesterday sent BNP standing committee member Goyeshwar Chandra Roy to jail after rejecting his bail prayer and police's 10-day remand prayer in a case filed over the December 24 Bakshibazar violence.   

Goyeshwar was earlier remanded for five-days in two other cases, one filed on December 26 with Turag police for creating anarchy while the other with Shahbagh police for attacking the ruling party's Netrakona-1 lawmaker, Chhabi Biswas, on Dhaka Medical College Hospital premises on December 24.

The same court also sent Jubo Dal President Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal to jail after rejecting his bail prayer and police's 10-day remand prayer in the same case filed with Shahbagh police.

Goyeshwar was arrested on December 26, a day after he vowed that the 20-party alliance would rally across the country if the government hindered their rally in Gazipur.

Alal was arrested on December 27 for planning destructive activities.

On December 24, around 200 BCL leaders equipped with rods and sticks swooped on BNP activists who gathered at Bakshibazar to stage a showdown centring party chief Khaleda Zia's appearance in two graft cases.