Vehicle Torching
Ex-BNP MP Babu sent to jail
A Dhaka court yesterday sent former BNP lawmaker Dewan Salahuddin Babu to jail in a case filed for torching vehicles in Savar protesting the arrest of their 33 top leaders on May 16.
Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Najmul Haque Shyamol passed the order after Salahuddin surrendered to the court seeking bail in the case.
However, in his order, the magistrate said the charge brought against the accused is non-bailable.
On May 24, Salahuddin, who was elected parliament member from Savar, secured anticipatory bail till yesterday from the High Court.
Granting the bail, the HC had directed the BNP leader to surrender before the trial court after expiry of the bail period.
On May 16, after the news spread about BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and 32 others being arrested, a group of party leaders and activists, including Salahuddin vandalised a number of vehicles at Savar bus stand on Dhaka-Aricha Highway. They also torched two more vehicles.
Following the incidents, Savar police filed a case against Salahuddin and several others under the Speedy Trial Act.
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