Khasru, 3 other BNP leaders denied bail, sent to jail

Four BNP leaders, including its standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, were sent to jail today after completing different terms of remands in three separate cases.

Three other BNP leaders are party vice chairmen Shamsuzzaman Dudu, Barrister Shahjahan Omar, and its media cell convener Zahir Uddin Swapon.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rashidul Alam and Mohammad Sheikh Sadi rejected the bail petitions of the BNP leaders and sent them to jail, according to media reports.

Earlier on 3 November, the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) detained Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury from his Gulshan residence.

Zahir Uddin Swapon was arrested from the same neighbourhood earlier that day.

The next day, a Dhaka court granted six-day remand against Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury and Zahir Uddin Swapon each in a case filed over the killing of police constable Amirul Haque on 28 October.

According to court sources, BNP activists clashed with police during the party's grand rally in Nayapaltan on 28 October. At one point during the clashes, constable Amirul Haque was killed.

BNP Vice Chairman Shamsuzzaman Dudu shortly after Sunday midnight (5 November).

Barrister Shahjahan Omar was sent to jail today after completion of his four-day remand over a case filed over setting vehicles on fire in the city's New Market area on 4 November.

On 1 November, separate courts in Dhaka granted a five-day remand for BNP Standing Committee Member Mirza Abbas and Joint Secretary General Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal.

Mirza Abbas was arrested on Tuesday in a case filed under the Sabotage and Explosives Substances Act with the capital's Shahjahanpur Police Station while Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal arrested in a case of vandalism at the Bangladesh Police Liberation War Museum in the capital's Rajarbagh.

The countrywide 48-hour blockade, called by BNP, Jamaat and other like-minded parties, ended on Thursday (9 November) with reports of minor clashes and 13 arson incidents across the country.

Before the end of the programme, the opposition parties announced another spell of a 48-hour countrywide road-rail-waterway blockade to press for ouster of the government and the next election under a neutral caretaker administration.

The fourth-phase blockade will be effective from 6am Sunday till 6am on Tuesday, BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said in a virtual briefing today.