BNP’s acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, standing committee member Moudud Ahmed and 24 other party men were charged with hurling crude bombs at policemen and damaging vehicles in 2013.
Mohammad Enamul Haque, an inspector of Detective Branch of police and also the investigation officer in the case, submitted two charge sheets to the Court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Dhaka yesterday.
Charges were pressed against Goyeshwar Chandra Roy, Mirza Abbas, Abdullah Al Noman, Amanullah Aman, Moazzem Hossain Alal, Shahiduddin Chowdhury Annee, Habibunnabi Khan Sohel, Barkatullah Bulu and Sultan Salauddin Tuku, among others.
All the accused, including Fakhrul and Moudud, have got bail from different courts on different dates.
According to the case statement, Fakhrul, Moudud and 24 others along with 1,000 to 1,200 unnamed activists brought out a protest procession in front of Twin Tower in the city’s Shantinagar area on March 2, 2013.
At one stage, they hurled five crude bombs at policemen and damaged several vehicles, leaving several law enforcers seriously injured.
A case was filed later with Paltan police against Fakhrul, Moudud, Goyeshwar, Noman and 22 others for their alleged involvement in the incidents.
Fakhrul, accused in over 70 criminal cases, was arrested on January 6 as he came out of the Jatiya Press Club in Dhaka, around 24 hours after he took shelter there amid protest by pro-government journalists.
He was shown arrested in eight arson cases filed with different police stations.
Detectives also on May 6 pressed murder charges against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and 37 others, mostly her party men, for their alleged involvement in the January 23 petrol bomb attack on a bus in the capital’s Jatrabari.
Source: The Daily Star
