The court fixed September 26 for the submission of the execution report of the arrest warrants
A Dhaka court yesterday issued a warrant for the arrest of BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in a case related to vandalism and assaulting the police dating from December 2012.
Metropolitan Magistrate Md Yunus Khan issued the warrant after Mirza Fakhrul and two others—Nasir Hossain and Mohammad Ali—failed to appear before the court on Sunday, the date scheduled for the acceptance of the charge sheet in the case.
The court fixed September 26 for the submission of the execution report of the arrest warrants.
On January 16, Sub-Inspector Zahid Khan of Kadamtali police station, the investigating officer of the case, submitted a charge sheet against 61 people including Mirza Fakhrul.
According to the case, the charge-sheeted men blocked roads in the Kadamtali area of the capital on the Postagola-Narayanganj Highway in front of Eagle Box factory during a protest programme in December 2012.
The case details say they torched and vandalised vehicles, attacked law enforcement officials with stones and brickbats and set an oil tanker-truck on fire.
Fakhrul was found to have provoked the BNP activists to carry out the violence and vandalism, according to the charge sheet.
After the incident, Sub-Inspector Mohammad Abu Azif filed a case with Kadamtoli police station accusing 77 people including former MP and BNP leader, Salauddin Ahamed, and his son, Rabin Ahamed, together with 20 to 25 unnamed BNP leaders and activists.
Before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court, Anisur Rahman, additional deputy commissioner of the police’s information, crime and investigation department, said: “Mirza Fakhrul was not listed on the First Information Report but the investigating officer has named him in the charge sheet as a fugitive accused.”
Fakhrul was not granted bail in the case, so the court issued a warrant for his arrest.
Source: Dhaka Tribune
