20-day remand sought for him
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday was shown arrested in two more cases filed for blasting cocktails and assaulting police during the opposition’s countrywide road blockade on December 9 last year.
Metropolitan Magistrate Rezaul Karim today granted two petitions filed by the investigation officers for showing Fakhrul arrested in the cases filed with Kalabagan and Paltan police stations.
Fakhrul was made accused in at least 20 cases, out of 38, filed following the BNP-led 18-party opposition’s December 9 road blockade programme.
Of the cases, the BNP leader earlier was shown arrested in four cases. He got bail in three cases and was denied bail in the other case.
Deboraj Chakrabarti and Khorshed Ali, the IOs and sub-inspectors of Kalabagan and Paltan police stations, also prayed to the court for Fakhrul’s 10 days’ remand in each case today.
The court will hear the remand prayer in the case filed with Kalabagan Police Station on January 24. But it is yet to fix any date for hearing the other remand prayer.
Police filed the case with Kalabagan Police Station for assaulting police and preventing them from discharging their duties in front of Padma General Hospital on Sonargaon Road in the capital on December 9, 2012.
Paltan police filed the other case for blasting cocktails and obstructing the law enforcers from discharging their duties at Nightingale intersection on the same day.
The opposition alliance enforced the roadblock demanding restoration of the caretaker government system.
Source: The Daily Star
