August 21 Attack
Bail petitions of 3 former CID officials rejected
A Dhaka court yesterday again rejected bail petitions of three former Criminal Investigation Department (CID) officials accused in the August 21 grenade attack cases.
The former CID officials are Ruhul Amin, former special superintendent of police, and Munshi Atiqur Rahman and Abdur Rashid, two former assistant superintendents of police.
Metropolitan Magistrate Keshob Roy Chowdhury passed the rejection orders after their lawyers submitted three separate bail petitions in the case filed in connection with the killing of 24 people in the grisly grenade attack on an Awami League rally in 2004.
Earlier on July 5, the same court rejected their bail petitions and sent them to jail after they had surrendered before it seeking bail.
The three are also accused of misleading the probe into the grenade attack cases.
During yesterday's hearing, the court also fixed August 16 for submitting copies of the two Bangla national dailies before it that published an advertisement asking BNP Senior Vice-chairman Tarique Rahman and 11 others to appear before the court in seven days in connection with the case.
The same court also issued arrest warrants against Tarique, Harris Chowdhury, BNP lawmaker Kazi Shah Mofazzal Hossain Kaikobad and nine others after CID submitted supplementary charge sheets on July 3 showing them to be fugitives.
The daily Amader Shomoy and daily Shamokal published the advertisement on Tuesday as per the court's order on August 1.
The other case filed under the Explosive Substances Act is now pending with the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court of Dhaka.
This court on July 14 and 26 had issued warrants against Tarique and 11 others as they had gone into hiding to avoid arrest.
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