A Dhaka court on Friday sent senior BNP Secretary Genera Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas to jail in a case filed over Wednesday’s violence in front of BNP’s central office in city’s Nayapaltan area.
Earlier on the day, police produced them before Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s (CMM) court in a case filed with the Paltan police station.
According to the court sources, the top BNP leaders were brought to the court around 4:10 pm on Friday. Later, they were kept in the CMM court cell.
The pro-BNP lawyers took positions at the courtyard and were chanting slogans demanding release of the two BNP leaders. A large number of police also took position there.
According to the court sources, the police had filed petition to keep Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Mirza Abbas in jail in the case of Paltan police station.
The two senior BNP leaders were arrested from their residences on Thursday night. Later, they were shown arrested in the case on the allegations of planning and instigating attacks on the police.
Harun Or Rashid, Additional Commissioner of the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), told reporters Friday noon that they interrogated the BNP leaders at the DB headquarters and later the two BNP leaders were shown arrested.
