Case for Assaulting AL Activists in Lalmonirhat
86 BNP men granted bail
BNP activists and supporters bring out a procession in Lalmonirhat town yesterday after Senior Judicial Magistrate's Court in the district granted bail to 86 party men who were earlier sued on charge of assaulting Awami League activists at Haribhanga in the town on November 13. Photo: STAR
Eighty-six leaders and activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Lalmonirhat district unit were yesterday granted bail in a case for assault on Awami League (AL) men in the town on November 13. Senior Judicial Magistrate Raju Ahmed granted them bail until January 31, 2012. The BNP men appeared before the court yesterday on expiry of their bail earlier granted by the High Court in the case. Zohurul Haque Mamun, publicity secretary of Lalmonirhat district AL, filed the case against 86 BNP men, including district unit President Asadul Habib Dulu, with Lalmonirhat Sadar Police station on 13 November this year on charge of assaulting some AL men in Haribhanga area of the town. The accused BNP men appeared before the High Court that granted them bail until December 29. As per order of the High Court, they surrendered to the Senior Judicial Magistrate's Court yesterday and sought bail, court sources said. Asadul Habib Dulu said, local AL unit filed the case only to harass them. BNP men were not involved in assaulting the AL men at Haribhanga in the town. The AL men were assaulted by their rivals in the party, he added. He alleged that AL men set Mohendronagar union BNP office afire and vandalised shops and houses of BNP men at a bazaar in the union on the day. Following the court order, BNP activists and supporters brought out a procession on Lalmonirhat-Burimari highway.
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