The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court of Dhaka on Thursday fixed January 9 for hearing the remand petitions after the investigation officers of the cases produced him before the court with a 10-day remand prayer in each of the cases.
The BNP leader was shown arrested in the two cases filed with Motijheel Police Station on November 5 and September 24 last year for vandalism, arson and attacking policemen.
According to a case, opposition men blocked a road at Kamalapur Bazar in the capital and blasted crude bombs targeting the law enforcers during a hartal on November 5.
As per the other case statement, BNP men from a procession vandalised and torched a car and exploded several crude bombs near Motijheel Ideal School and College in the capital on September 24.
The IOs -– sub-inspectors Humayun Kabir Hawlader and Khandaker Zahid Ali of the respective cases -– recently sought remand for the BNP leader.
Five other top BNP leaders — Barrister Moudud Ahmed, MK Anwar, Barrister Rafiqul Islam Miah, BNP chairperson’s adviser and former FBCCI president Abdul Awal Mintoo and her special assistant Shimul Biswas — were also shown arrested in the two cases.
Meanwhile, the court sent Hafiz to jail in another case filed in connection with arson attack on a police bus in the city on December 24 that left a cop dead.
Metropolitan Magistrate Harunur Rashid Khan passed the order when sub-inspector of Ramna Police Station Mohammad Ali Hossain, also the investigation officer of the case, produced him before the court on completion of his two-day remand in the case.
Police constable Ferdous Khalil was killed and two others were injured when two miscreants riding on a motorcycle hurled a petrol bomb on a police vehicle in city’s Bangla Motor area on December 24.
Police arrested BNP leader Hafizuddin Ahmed in front of the National Press Club in the city on December 29.
Source: UNB Connect
