BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and the party's standing committee member Mirza Abbas have been sent to jail by a Dhaka court without granting them bail.
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) court in Dhaka passed the order at about 5:15pm on Friday (December 9).
Earlier, both Mirza Fakhrul and Mirza Abbas were produced before the court after 4:00pm. At that time, pro-BNP lawyers chanted anti-government slogans at the court premises. Then the bail of two leaders were sought. Though police didn't seek the remand of two leaders, they pleaded to the court to send them to jail. The court passed the order after the hearing of lawyers.
Before it, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP)'s Detective Branch (DB) chief Harun-ar-Rashid showed them arrested in a case filed over Nayapaltan clash on Wednesday.
Harun-ar-Rashid said they were shown arrested in a filed at Paltan Police Station on December 8 last. They were shown arrested in a case filed for "instigating and planning attacks on police."
