BNP leader Khoka held

 

Law enforcers detained BNP vice-chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka from the city’s Uttara area on Wednesday night.

 

The law enforcers picked up Khoka, also BNP’s Dhaka city unit convener, from house No 18 at Road-15 of Sector-4 in the posh area around 9:45pm, said his personal assistant Monir Hossain.

 

Meanwhile, police and Rapid Action Battalion denied the detention of Khoka.

 

The BNP leader was accused in two cases recently filed against some opposition leaders.

 

Of them, one was filed against 16 opposition leaders, including Khoka, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and its joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, on November 29 in connection with the arson attack of November 28 on a bus in the city’s Shahbagh area that left three people dead and 15 others injured.

 

Hours after the filing of the case, plainclothes police stormed into the BNP central office at Nayapaltan and picked up Rizvi in the early hours of Saturday.

 

The other case was filed on Sunday against 15 opposition leaders, including Fakhrul and Khoka, with Rampura Police Station in connection with Saturday’s arson attack on a bus in the city’s Malibagh area that left a man dead and four people injured.

 

Habibur Rahman, 32, a resident of Basabo in the city, was killed and four people were injured as a minibus crashed into a rickshaw after a petrol bomb was thrown at it in the city’s Malibagh area on Saturday evening.

Source: UNB Connect