BANGLADESH NEWS
Thirty-three top 18-party alliance leaders including BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir landed in jail on Wednesday after their bail petitions were rejected in an arson case.
At least 10 people including pro-BNP lawyers and 18-party leaders and activists sustained injuries as they clashed with the law enforcers following the court order.
Meanwhile, miscreants torched two vehicles -- one in Karwan Bazar and another at AGB Colony in Motijheel of the city after the leaders were sent to jail.
Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Erfanullah sent the accused leaders to jail around 1:45pm.
Earlier, the accused leaders surrendered before the court around 9:30am following the direction of a third bench of the High Court and filed two separate petitions for bail.
The pro-BNP lawyers and the BNP leaders and activists who gathered in and outside the court following the surrender of the 18-party leaders burst into rages when the court passed the order.
They also chanted slogans demanding the unconditional release of their leaders and activists and against the government.
At one stage, police charged batons on the agitating demonstrators to take the situation under control, leaving 10 people injured.
Of the injured, advocate Hossain Ali Khan, a pro-BNP lawyer, was shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital from National Medical College Hospital as his condition deteriorated.
Earlier, police picked up 11 BNP and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal activists at the court area on charge of creating chaos, said Khurshid Hossain, deputy commissioner of Lalbagh zone.
A total of 45 leaders and workers of 18-party alliance, including BNP leaders Mirza Fakhrul, Mirza Abbas and Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed; and Liberal Democratic Party President Oli Ahmed were made accused in the case for torching a vehicle near the Prime Minister's Office during hartal hours on April 29.
Of the accused, four 18-party leaders and activists including Jamaat-e-Islami acting ameer Mokbul Ahmed did not surrender before the court, a BNP leader told .
On the other hand, police earlier arrested BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed and six others in the same case.
They are now in jail custody while another accused, BNP lawmaker barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokon, had secured bail till May 20 from a trial court.
Security has been strengthened in and around the court premises prior to the surrender of the opposition leaders.
ARSON CASE
Tejgaon police filed a case against a number of leaders and workers of 18-party alliance, including Mirza Fakhrul, Mirza Abbas and Oli Ahmed, hours after a vehicle was set ablaze near the PMO during hartal hours on April 29.
The same day, Ramna police filed another case against top leaders of the alliance for exploding a 'bomb' at the Bangladesh Secretariat that day.
After the cases were filed, the top BNP leaders accused went into hiding and turned up at the High Court on May 7 to seek bail.
But a two-member HC bench delivered dissenting orders on seven bail petitions.
Meanwhile on May 10, detectives pressed charges against 45 leaders and activists of BNP-led 18-party alliance, including the BNP acting secretary general in the case.
DISSENTING ORDER
Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury, senor judge of a High Court bench, granted anticipatory bail to the accused until police submits their reports on the cases. He issued seven separate rules upon the government to explain in four weeks as to why the petitioners should not be granted regular bail.
Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder, the other judge, however, directed the politicians accused to surrender before the magistrate's court concerned within seven days and ordered law enforcers not to harass or arrest them during the period.
Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain sent the case to a third HC bench on May 10 for its final disposal.
The third bench on Sunday ordered the 37 accused to surrender before the trial court.
Accordingly, they surrendered before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court on Wednesday.
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