A Dhaka court on Thursday again fixed November 28 for the hearing on the bail petitions of the top five BNP leaders, including Barrister Moudud Ahmed, MK Anwar and Barrister Rafiqul Islam Miah, in two cases.
The two other BNP leaders are BNP chairperson’s adviser and former FBCCI president Abdul Awal Mintoo and her special assistant Shimul Biswas.
Judge Mohammad Zuhurul Haque of Dhaka Metropolitan Session Judge Court passed the order as public prosecutor opposed the bail of the five leaders saying that the investigations officers of the cases will interrogate to the five BNP leaders at jail gate on November 24.
The High Court on Sunday (November 17) stayed a lower court order that had granted remand for top five BNP leaders, after filing the writ petition on behalf of the BNP leaders challenging the lower court order placing them on remand
The court also asked for interrogating the BNP leaders at jail gate and not taking them on further remand.
A CMM court here on November 14 allowed eight days’ remand for each of the five arrested senior BNP leaders rejecting their bail prayers in two cases filed for vandalising and torching vehicles and attacking cops.
On the night of November 8, plainclothes police arrested BNP standing committee members Barrister Moudud Ahmed, MK Anwar and Barrister Rafiqul Islam Miah from the city’s Karwanbazar area as they came out of Sonargaon Hotel.
On the following day, at about 1 am, Abdul Awal Mintoo and Shimul Biswas were arrested from in front of BNP chairperson’s Gulshan residence.
The five BNP leaders were shown arrested in the two cases filed with Motijheel Police Station on November 5 and September 24 for vandalism, arson and attacking policemen.
Source: UNB Connect
