DHAKA NEWS
A Dhaka court on Wednesday rejected the bail petitions of Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid, an accused in the August 21 grenade attack cases.
Judge Shahed Nuruddin of Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 passed the order after a lengthy hearing on the bail petitions filed by Mojahid.
Earlier in the day, counsels of six accused in the cases cross-examined Sharif Faruq Ahmed, the then sub-inspector of Motijheel Police Station and also the complainant of the cases.
The court later fixed April 30 for the next hearing of the cases.
Twenty-four people including Awami League leader Ivy Rahman were killed and around 200 others injured in the grisly grenade attack on an AL rally at Bangabandhu Avenue on August 21 in 2004.
The then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina narrowly escaped the attack.
BACKGROUND
After the grisly grenade attack in 2004, two cases were filed in connection with the attack – one under explosive substances act and the other for killing people.
In 2008, the CID submitted charge sheets against 22 people including former BNP deputy minister Abdus Salam Pintu and 21 Huji men including militant kingpin Mufti Hannan.
On July 3 last year, 30 more people including BNP's Senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman, former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar, BNP chairperson's political secretary Harris Chowdhury and Mojahid were made accused in the supplementary charge-sheets.
Of the 51 accused, 32 including Babar and Mojahid are now in jail and one was released on bail. Tarique and 18 others are absconding.
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