Fakhrul, Abbas seek bail again

BNP leaders Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Mirza Abbas today sought bail again in a case over the December-7 clash between police and the party men in the capital's Nayapaltan area.

Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Rezaul Karim Chowdhury fixed tomorrow for hearing on the bail petitions in the case, said Fakhrul's lawyer Zaynal Abedin Mesbah.

Earlier on Monday, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Shafiuddin rejected their bail petitions after their lawyers moved it saying the complainant didn't include their names in the first information report (FIR).

The same court on that day also rejected the bail petitions of 222 other BNP leaders and activists in the case.

Sub-inspector Mizanur Rahman filed the case with Paltan Police Station on December 8, a day after the clash broke out in front of the party's Nayapaltan office, leaving one person dead and scores of others injured. A total of 450 leaders and activists of BNP and its front organisations were arrested in the case on December 7 and produced before a Dhaka court the following day.

Law enforcers picked up BNP Secretary General Fakhrul and the party's standing committee member Abbas from their homes around 3:00am on December 9.

The same day, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Jashim sent the two BNP leaders to jail, rejecting their bail petitions.

They were shown arrested on the charges of provoking party members to launch an attack on police in Nayapaltan area.