A Dhaka court on Wednesday rejected the bail petition of BNP joint secretaries general Barkatullah Bulu and Salauddin Ahmed in two cases.
Acting Metropolitan Session’s Judge M Akhtaruzzaman passed the orders when lawyers of the two BNP leaders sought their bail in the cases filed with Paltan and Sher-e-Banglanagar police stations.
The criminal miscellaneous petitions were filed with the session’s judge court following rejection of their bail petitions by separate Metropolitan Magistrate courts.
Metropolitan Magistrate M Mostafizur Rahman sent Bulu to jail after rejecting his bail petition on May 16 in the Paltan case while Metropolitan Magistrate Ataul Haque rejected the bail and remand prayers for Salauddin on May 22 in the other case.
Bulu was arrested when he came out of the BNP’s Nayapaltan central office on May 15 after attending a press briefing of the BNP-led 18-party alliance when a nationwide daylong hartal was called for May 19. Later, police showed him arrested in the case filed with Paltan Police Station.
Sub-inspector Alauddin of Paltan Police Station filed the case on March 12 against 154 named opposition men, including some top BNP leaders, and some unnamed ones on charges of obstructing police from discharging their duties, making attempts to kill cops and exploding crude bombs near BNP Nayapaltan central office on March 11.
Earlier, he along with two other top BNP leaders — Barrister Moudud Ahmed and Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Annie — was released from jail on April 22 after securing bail in all the seven cases filed over March 2 and March 6 violence in the city.
On the other hand, Salauddin was rearrested as he came out of the Kashimpur Jail on bail secured from the High Court in three cases filed over April 1 violence in the city.
Later, he was shown arrested in a case filed with Sher-e-Banglanagar Police Station for vandalising vehicles and exploding crude bombs during hartal on December 9 last year.
Earlier on April 8, Detective Branch of police arrested Salahuddin, also a former state minister, from the city’s Gulshan area.
On March 11, police in a raid on BNP’s Nayapaltan central office arrested over 150 of its leaders and workers, including acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi.
The law enforcers launched the drive in the BNP office after 8-10 crude bombs went off in front of the BNP central office while Fakhrul was addressing a rally there.
Three of the arrested leaders — Mirza Fakhrul, Sadek Hossain Khoka and Altaf Hossain Chowdhury — were released the following day.
Source: The Independent
