The Dhaka Metropolitan Session Judge Court on Wednesday rejected the bail petitions of Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and standing committee member Mirza Abbas in a case over the clash between police and the party activists in the capital’s Naya Paltan on December 7.
Judge Asaduzzaman of the court turned down the petitions when their lawyers sought bail for them.
Syed Joynal Abedin Mezbah, a lawyer of the BNP leaders, said that it was the fourth time that the top BNP leaders had been denied bail in the case.
On December 9, a team of Detective Branch of police picked up Fakhrul and Abbas from their homes in separate raids in the capital city.
Later, they were shown arrested in a case over the clash between police and the party activists in the capital’s Naya Paltan. A Dhaka court sent them to jail rejecting their bail pleas.
On December 12, a Dhaka court rejected the bail petitions of 224 leaders and activists of BNP, including Fakhrul and Abbas.
On December 15, a Dhaka court again rejected the bail petitions of the two BNP leaders in the case.
A Dhaka court ordered to give division facility to them on December 9 and then they were given the division facility from December 13.
They were accused of instigating, planning and directing an attack on police.
On December 7, a Swechchasebak Dal leader was killed and scores of others were injured in a clash between police and the BNP activists in front of the party’s Nayapaltan central office, ahead of its December 10 rally.
