Rizvi denied bail again in arson cases

A Dhaka court yesterday again rejected bail of BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed in three arson cases.  

Meanwhile, the HC yesterday stayed for a month a Dhaka court order that allowed police to send Rizvi on a three-day remand in another arson case filed with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station on January 18.

The three cases were filed on January 16 and 23 with Mohammadpur and Jatrabari police stations in connection with arson attacks on buses.

The court passed the order after Rizvi's lawyer submitted three appeals against the lower court rejection order on different dates.    

The same court fixed April 9 for hearing on bail petitions of three other cases filed with Mohammadpur and Mirpur police stations on different dates. The BNP leader was arrested in Baridhara on January 31 and was shown arrested in a dozen of cases and remanded for 27 days.

Following a writ petition, the HC also issued a rule upon the government to explain in two weeks why remand order against Rizvi should not be declared illegal.

Rizvi's lawyer Sagir Hossain Leon told The Daily Star that a metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka on March 31 passed the remand order in an arson case.

The police have not taken him on remand in this case yet, he said, adding that police cannot take him on remand following the High Court order.