BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Standing Committee member Mirza Abbas have been shown arrested in a case filed at Paltan police station over Wednesday’s clash between police and BNP activists, reports UNB.
“They have been arrested in the case filed under the Explosive Substance Act at Paltan police station on Thursday after questioning,” said Harun Or Rashid chief of Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police at a press briefing in the capital on Friday.
They will be produced before court today (Friday) and a remand will be sought to interrogate them, he said.
They were accused of instigating, planning and directing an attack on police, crude bomb explosion, destroying public property and lives, he added
When asked whether any other central BNP leader is under surveillance he said,” If anyone else is involved with such crimes we will take action against them too. We are keeping an eye on everything.”
Questioned about the BNP’s rally venue he said BNP is now proposing Golapbagh field but no decision was taken yet in this regard.
In the early hours of Friday, BNP’s Media Cell member Sayrul Kabir Khan said that a team of Detective Branch (DB) of police picked up Mirza Fakhrul and Mirza Abbas from their homes in separate raids in the capital city.
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