BNP leaders Sadeque Hossain Khoka and Md Salauddin have been
implicated in a case concerning the torching of a running bus at
Matuail in Dhaka.
Nine people, including an Eden College student, had suffered burn
injuries when the bus they were travelling on was set on fire on
Tuesday.
It happened on the third day of the BNP-led 18-party alliance’s
84-hour shutdown across the country.
The injured had been admitted to the burns unit of the Dhaka Medical
College and Hospital, Md Mozammel Haq, Inspector at the hospital
outpost, told journalists.
The driver of the bus, Nekbar Ali, filed a case with the Jatrabarhi
Police Station against 12 persons. But Khoka and Salauddin were not
among the accused.
However, they had been named as instigators of the horrific attack,
Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Senior Assistant Commissioner Md Minhazul
Islam told journalists.
Although their names do not figure among those accused, they are
believed to be included in the charge-sheet.
Former Dhaka Mayor Khoka had earlier been implicated as an instigator
in another case filed with the Sutrapur Police Station for setting
fire to a human hauler. -bdnews.com
