BANGLADESH NEWS
Detectives on Thursday charged 29 leaders of 18-party alliance including BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir with blasting two bombs at Bangladesh Secretariat during hartal on April 29.
The new charges were pressed against the opposition leaders just 20 days after 45 leaders and activists of BNP-led 18-party alliance including Fakhrul were charged with torching a vehicle near the Prime Minister's Office during the shutdown.
DB Inspector Tapan Chandra Saha, also the investigation officer of the case, submitted the charge sheet to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court in Dhaka around 11:00am showing 34 people as prosecution witnesses.
The case was filed with Shahbagh Police Station against 28 leaders and activists of the 18-party alliance in connection with two bomb explosions at the secretariat during hartal hours on April 29.
All the accused leaders are now in jail in connection with the arson case, though the High Court granted anticipatory bail to Fakhrul and 24 other opposition leaders in the bomb-blast case until the submission of the charge sheet. Of the 29 charge sheeted accused, four were sent to jail earlier after their arrest in connection with the blast case.
On May 14, the High Court granted anticipatory bail to Fakhrul and 24 others.
BACKGROUND
On May 7, two HC judges delivered dissenting orders on their bail petitions compelling the chief justice to sent the petition to a third bench.
Earlier May 13, the HC ordered the alliance leaders to surrender before the lower court by May 16 in connection with a case filed for torching a vehicle near the Prime Minister’s Office during the April 29 hartal.
The HC also ordered the law enforcers not to arrest or harass the accused until they appear before the lower court on May 16.
On May 16, a metropolitan magistrate sent the leaders to jail, turning down their bail prayers in the torching case.
A Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court in Dhaka too rejected on May 23 the bail petitions of Fakhrul and 32 other top opposition leaders who are in jail since May 16.
FULL LIST OF ACCUSED
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir; its joint secretaries general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi and Amanullah Aman; standing committee members Brig Gen (retd) ASM Hannan Shah, Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain and Goyeshwar Chandra Roy; former deputy minister Ruhul Quddus Talukder Dulu; lawmakers Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Annie, Syeda Asifa Ashrafi Papia, Shammi Akhtar Shifa, Rehana Akhtar Ranu and Nilufar Chowdhury Moni; former Dhaka City Corporation mayor Sadek Hossain Khoka; Liberal Democratic Party President Oli Ahmed; Bangladesh Jatiya Party President Andalib Rahman Partha; Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal President Sultan Salahuddin Tuku and its Organising Secretary Anisur Rahman Khokon; Jubo Dal President Moazzem Hossain Alal and its General Secretary Saiful Islam Nirob; Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal President Habib-un-Nabi Khan Sohel and its General Secretary Mir Sharafat Ali Safu; and BNP leaders Abdul Salam, Abdul Matin, SM Jahangir Hossain Sardar, Kamruzzaman Dulal, Kamruzzaman Ratan, Mertazul Karim Badru, Rehana Akhter Dolly and Tofazzal Hossain Bhuiyan.
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