The High Court on Sunday stayed a lower court order that had granted
remand for top five BNP leaders, including Barrister Moudud Ahmed, MK
Anwar and Barrister Rafiqul Islam Miah, in two cases. An HC bench comprising Justice Borhanuddin and Justice KM Kamrul Kader passed the
order after hearing a writ petition. The court also asked for
interrogating the BNP leaders at jail gate and not taking them on
further remand. Earlier in the morning, Barrister Mahbubuddin Khokon
filed the writ petition on behalf of the BNP leaders challenging the
lower court order placing them on remand. The two other BNP leaders
are BNP chairperson’s adviser and former FBCCI president Abdul Awal
Mintoo and her special assistant Shimul Biswas. A CMM court here on
Thursday allowed eight days’ remand for each of the five arrested
senior BNP leaders rejecting their bail prayers in two cases filed for
vandalising and torching vehicles and attacking cops. After hearing
both the prosecution and the defence, Metropolitan Magistrate Md
Rezaul Karim granted five days’ remand in one case and three days more
in another case. On the night of November 8, plainclothes police
arrested BNP standing committee members Barrister Moudud Ahmed, MK
Anwar and Barrister Rafiqul Islam Miah from the city’s Karwanbazar
area as they came out of Sonargaon Hotel. On the following day, at
about 1 am, Abdul Awal Mintoo and Shimul Biswas were arrested from in
front of BNP chairperson’s Gulshan residence. The five BNP leaders
were shown arrested in the two cases filed with Motijheel Police
Station on November 5 and September 24 for vandalism, arson and
attacking policemen. – UNB
