Hannan Shah sent to jail
A city court on Thursday rejected the bail petitions of five senior leaders of BNP implicated in two hartal related violence cases in the city.
Dhaka metropolitan sessions judge Md Jahrul Haque issued the order after hearing separate bail petitions of the opposition leaders in his chamber.The judge rejected the bail petitions of BNP leaders Moudud Ahmed, MK Anwar and Rafiqul Islam Miah, and BNP Chairperson’s adviser Abdul Awal Mintoo and special assistant Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswas.
Petitioners’ lawyer Sanaullah Mia told New Age that he would soon move the High Court challenging the denial of bails to the leaders arrested on November 8.
Metropolitan magistrate Tareq Mainul Islam Bhuiyan sent BNP standing committee member Hannan Shah to Dhaka Central Jail after he was produced in the court on completion of his two-day remand in police custody.
Hannan Shah has been implicated in a case of torching vehicles on October 26 at Bhatara in outskirts of the capital.
Police in plainclothes arrested Hannan Shah at city’s Baridhara on November 25 night.
The magistrate, however, set no date to hear two other petitions from the investigation officers seeking remand of Hannan Shah in two other cases in which the five BNP leaders including Moudud have been detained in jail.
A court official told New Age that the date for hearing the police pleas to take Hannan into fresh remands would be set as soon as the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court gets the documents of the two cases against the five BNP leaders from the Metropolitan Sessions Judges’ Court.
The five leaders were implicated in one of the two cases alleging that as per their direction, plan and provocation, 74 opposition leaders and activists and 80-90 unknown people had brought out a procession and created panic among people by exploding three to four crude bombs in front of Anar Bakery at Kamalapur Bazaar on November 4 to enforce hartal.
The second case also makes similar allegations against the five leaders stating that as per their direction, plan and provocation, 54 leaders and activists of Dhaka South unit Chhatra Dal and 80-90 unknown people had assembled unlawfully in front of Motijheel Ideal School and College in an attempt to kill lawmen and bus drivers by exploding two to four crude bombs on September 24 morning.
-With New Age input
