41 BNP-Jamaat men's bail petitions rejected
A Dhaka court yesterday again rejected bail petitions of 41 BNP-Jamaat activists in connection with a case filed for the violence carried out in the city's Paltan area on December 18.
Metropolitan Magistrate Asaduzzaman Nur of the Speedy Trial Court-14 passed the order after counsels of the accused submitted separate bail petitions.
Fifty nine BNP-Jamaat leaders were named in the case filed with Paltan Police Station on December 18 for damaging vehicles, halting transport movement, anarchy and preventing policemen from discharging their duties.
The accused include Jubo Dal President Moazzem Hossain Alal, General Secretary Saiful Alam Nirob, Chhatra Dal President Sultan Salauddin Tuku, General Secretary Amirul Islam Alim and Vice-President Shahidul Islam Babul.
They were yet to be arrested or attain bail from any other court.
The 41 accused were earlier remanded, interrogated and sent to jail by rejecting their bail petitions.
At dawn on December 18, several homemade bombs went off in downtown Dhaka as hundreds of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami activists clashed with police, vandalised more than a dozen vehicles and set some of those afire.
A 24-year-old man, Arifuzzaman Arif, was killed when a bomb exploded in Motijheel area.
Following the incidents, police filed 18 cases against around 7,000 leaders and activists of BNP and Jamaat across the country for going on the rampage.
Police also picked up 289 opposition activists from the capital. Of them, 120 were remanded for six days in connection with several cases.
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