The detained BNP Vice Chairman Khandakar Mahbub Hossain, also advisor to the BNP Chief Khaleda Zia another Vice Chairman of the party Selima Rahman and Fazlul Haq Milon have been charged in bomb blast case. The detained leaders have been shown arrested in the same allegation with engineering explosions during the polls on January 5.Joint Commissioner Monirul Islam of Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police told that to interrogate the arrestees’ police will seek at least seven days remand.
Earlier DB Police arrested Khandakar Mahbub Hossain from in front of National Press Club when he emerged from a meeting organised by the pro-BNP united forum of professionals while Selima Rahman was nabbed in front of her residence at capital’s Gulshan area on Tuesday.
Fazlul Haque Milon was picked up from Baridhara on Tuesday noon along with Zoynul Abedin Farooque, Shirin Sultana and Harunur Rashid. But later on except Milon others released.
Prior to that Selima Rahman announced the extension of 18-Party alliance’s shutdown until 6pm Wednesday from a press conference called at her Gulshan residence. – Court Correspondent
