It fixed Dec 4 to hear his bail petition and the police’s plea for a
10-day remand.
The court of Metropolitan Magistrate SM Ashikur Rahman said they will
hear both the bail petition of Rizvi and the police plea for a 10-day
remand on Dec 4.
Rizvi has been booked in a case of arson at Shahbagh where a bus
caught fire after a petrol bomb was hurled on it.
Two died and 16 others suffered serious burn injuries when a
petrol-bomb was hurled at the bus on Thursday, the last day of the
Opposition called 71-hour blockade.
Police had filed a case over the incident on the same day accusing
Rizvi and several other senior BNP leaders including Acting Secretary
General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Vice-Chairman Sadeque Hossain
Khoka, Standing Committee members Mirza Abbas and Gayeshwar Chandra
Roy, Joint Secretaries General Aman Ullah Aman, Barkatullah Bulu and
Salahuddin Ahmed and Dhaka Metropolitan BNP’s Member Secretary Abdus
Salam.
Police arrested Rizvi and Central Executive Committee member Belal
Ahmed around 4.15am on Saturday.
BNP office staffs said sleuths of police’s detective branch in
civvies, climbed up to the first floor of the building and broke open
the door of the room where Rizvi was staying and then they took him to
their custody.
Police have allegedly damaged equipments of TV crews of two channels
while conducting the raid.
Senior correspondent of ‘Eakttor tv’ Shafique Ahmed and senior
correspondent of ‘Gtv’ Gausil Ajam Dipu, who were present at the BNP
headquarters, were locked in a room by the police.
Police had raided the BNP headquarters even seven months ago when they
arrested some top leaders of the party including its Acting Secretary
General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir. Rizvi was also arrested then. He
had to spend time in jail before securing bail.
In the past one month, several other top BNP leaders including its
Standing Committee members Moudud Ahmed, MK Anwar, ASM Hannan Shah and
Rafiqul Islam Mia, chairperson’s advisors Mir Md Nasir Uddin and Abdul
Awal Mintoo, Organising Secretary Golam Akbar Khondokar and Khaleda
Zia’s special assistant Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswas had been arrested
on charges of strike and blockade related violence and are now in
jail.-bdnews24.com
