A Dhaka court on Thursday rejected the bail petition of BNP 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 Nayapaltan.
Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Tofazzal Hossain rejected the bail petition after the hearing.
This is the third time the top leaders of BNP have been denied bail in this case.
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Senior lawyers Zainul Abedin and Masud Ahmed Talukder appeared for the bail plea while Dhaka Metropolitan Public Prosecutor Abdullah Abu Jamin represented the state.
On Wednesday, the counsel of Mirza Fakhrul and Abbas pleaded for their bail in the court of Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Rezaul Karim Chowdhury.
On Tuesday, Mirza Fakhrul’s wife Rahat Ara Begum, Mirza Abbas’ wife Afroza Abbas and advocate AJ Mohammad Ali submitted the petition.
A Dhaka court ordered to give division facility to them on December 9 and then they were given the division facility from Tuesday.
In the early hours of Friday, a team of Detective Branch (DB) of police picked up Fakhrul and Abbas from their homes in separate raids in the capital city.
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Later, they were arrested in a case filed over the clash between police and the party activists in the capital’s Nayapaltan.
On Monday, a Dhaka court rejected the bail petition of 224 leaders and activists of BNP, including Fakhrul and Abbas, and sent them to jail.
Source: United News of Bangladesh