Eight Jamaat, BNP leaders including BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Jamaat Secretary General Miah Golam Parwar, and former Vice-President DUCSU Nurul Haque Nur were placed on a five-day remand each by a Dhaka court on Sunday in a case filed over vandalizing and setting fire to the Kazipara Metro Station in the city's Mirpur on July 19.
Metropolitan Magistrate Moinul Islam passed the order as the Investigation Officer of the case
Md Asaduzzaman Munshi produced the eight and prayed to the court to allow a 10-day remand for questioning.
The other five opposition parties' leaders are: BNP Organising Secretary Kazi Sayedul Alam Babul, Publicity Secretary Sultan Salauddin Tuku, Dhaka North City unit Member Secretary Aminul Haque, BNP Bagerhat unit Convener MA Salam, and activist Mahmudus Salehin.
In the forwarding report the IO said the accused carried out the pre-planned attack on the metro station with an intention to topple the government. So, they need to be remanded to find out the vital clues about the incident.
On the other hand the defence lawyers submitted separate petitions, seeking bail along with the cancellation of the remand prayer on grounds that their clients were implicated in the case as part of a conspiracy to harass them politically.
Claiming himself innocent, Nurul Haque Nur told the court that he was tortured mentally and physically while he was on a five-day remand in another case. If he is placed on remand again his life will be at stake. So, he appealed to the court to cancel the remand prayer.
Earlier in the day, all eight were shown arrested in the case after the IO submitted an application in this regard.
In the prayer, the IO said Nurul Haque Nur, also Member-Secretary of Gana Adhikar Parishad, and others were earlier arrested in another case filed with Rampura Police Station over vandalism at the Bangladesh Television (BTV) headquarters in the capital's Rampura on July 18.
Earlier on July 26, six people, including a journalist, were placed on a five-day remand in the same case. They are Hafiz Al Asad, Sanaul Haque Niru, Alamgir, Mohiuddin Ahmed Bhuiyan, Abdul Aziz Sultan and Mayeen.
Hafiz is the Organising Secretary of a faction of the Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ).
The case statement is that some 5,000 to 6,000 people attacked the Kazipara Metro Rail Station in Mirpur between 4:30pm and 7:30pm on July 19.
In this regard Deputy Director (Administration) of MRT Line-6 of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Ltd, Imam Uddin Kabir, filed a case with Kafrul Police Station on July 22 accusing 5,000 to 6,000 unnamed people.
