Apart from showing arrested in a subversive case filed with the city`s Paltan Police Station, police have submitted a plea to a Dhaka court to place BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury on a 10-day remand for questioning.
The prayer to place the BNP leaders on remand was submitted on December 14. Hearing on the matter will be held on Monday (December 18), said Paltan Model Police Station sub-inspector Sumit Kumar who is also the investigation officer of the case.
It has been stated in the remand prayer that the accused and their associates in connivance with each other attacked police being equipped with bamboo sticks to commit a riot. They also created panic among people and harmed their property in a forcible manner and blasting home-made bombs. The accused are the central leaders of BNP. They gave directives to the leaders and workers of BNP and its associate organisations to create an anarchic situation in the country. As a result, the accused mentioned in the case and also the fugitive accused attacked police in front of Paltan Police Station with local weapons and injured them exploding cocktails. In order to a fair investigation into the case, the accused need to be placed on 10-day remand for questioning.
Mirza Fakhrul was brought before a court on October 29 last in a case filed over attacking the chief justice`s residence at Kakrail. After the hearing, metropolitan magistrate Shafi Uddin`s court sent him to jail instead of granting him bail.
After the arrest of Amir Khasru on November 3 last in the case filed with Paltan Model Police Station, a court in Dhaka placed him on a six-day remand. After the remand, the court ordered to send him to jail on November 10. Since then he has been in jail.
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