Bail prayers of
11 AL men turned down
A Rangpur court yesterday rejected bail prayers of 11 Awami League men including a minister's assistant personal secretary (APS), held on Tuesday on charge of involvement in a tender-dropping related violence in the district.
Earlier, bail prayers were moved before the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Rangpur.
Twenty-two people were arrested after a clash over dropping of tender for construction of Lalmonirhat town protection dam. The AL activists allegedly chased the contractors and police out of the Rangpur WDB office.
While the rest were released, police produced the aforesaid 11 before the court which sent them to jail rejecting their bail prayers. The lawyers of the accused later told newsmen that they would move to higher court for seeking their bails.
Meanwhile, president of Rangpur district unit AL Abul Monsur Ahmed claimed that Sajjad Hosain, the APS to state minister for primary and mass education, went to the Water Development Board office in Rangpur for official work on Tuesday and he had no connection with the tender-related clash.
Superintendent of police Saleh Mohammad Tanvir, however, said that the complainant of the case identified Sajjad Hossain and 10 others as the people who stood on his way to submitting tender documents. After verifying the video footage police arrested them, added the SP.
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