A Dhaka court on Wednesday rejected the bail pleas of BNP Joint Secretary Generals Barkatullah Bulu and Salahuddin Ahmed in connection with the two cases.
After hearing on their bail pleas, Acting Judge of Dhaka Metropolitan Session Judge Court Dr Mohammad Akhtaruzzaman passed the order. Earlier, in the morning, police produced them before the court for hearing on the bail petition of the two cases filed with Tejgaon and Sher-e-Banlga Nagar police stations.
The petitions were filed with the session’s judge court following rejection of their bail petitions by separate Metropolitan Magistrate courts.
Metropolitan Magistrate M Mostafizur Rahman sent Bulu to jail after rejecting his bail petition on May 16 in the Paltan case while Metropolitan Magistrate Ataul Haque rejected the bail and remand prayers for Salauddin on May 22 in the other case.
On May 15, Bulu was picked up from in front of Nayapaltan BNP central office and later shown arrested in a case filed with Tejgaon police station.
On the other hand, Salahuddin was held from the city’s Gulshan area on April 8. Later, he got bail in four cases and was freed from jail on May 16.
But police again held him from jail gate and shown arrested him in a case of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police station.
On March 11, police in a raid on BNP’s central office arrested over 150 of its leaders and workers.
-With The Independent input
