A Dhaka court on Sunday fixed December 13 for the hearing of the bail petitions of seven top BNP leaders including its Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Standing Committee member Mirza Abbas in a case over the clash between police and the party activists in the capital’s Nayapaltan, reports UNB.
Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Rezaul Karim Chowdhury passed the order when their counsel sought bail.
The remaining five who sought bail are BNP’s Dhaka south city unit convener Abdus Salam, Publication Secretary Shahiduddin Chowdhury Annie, joint secretary Khairul Kabir Khokon, former organizing secretary Fazlul Haque Milon and party leader Selim Reza Habib.
On Friday, a Dhaka court sent Mirza Fakhrul and Abbas to jail rejecting their bail petitions in the case.
In the early hours of Friday, 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.
Later they were shown arrested in a case filed under the Explosive Substances Act with Paltan police station over Wednesday’s clash.
They were accused of instigating, planning and directing an attack on police, crude bomb explosion, destroying public property and lives, he added.
Bd-pratidin English/Tanvir Raihan
