Senior BNP leaders including acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir have been sued in connection with Thursday’s attack on bus passengers at Shahbagh.
The case, filed at the Shahbagh Police Station, accuses the BNP leaders of instigating the arson, said Maruf Hossain Sardar, Deputy Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (Ramna division).
BNP Vice-Chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka, Standing Committee member Mirza Abbas, Joint Secretaries General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Aman Ullan Aman and Barkatullah Bulu, and party Dhaka metropolitan unit’s Joint Convenor Salauddin Ahmed and Member Secretary Abdus Salam are among the accused.
Seventeen leaders of the main opposition have been named in the case while three others were unnamed.
Suspected Opposition activists had torched the bus on the third day of their 71-hour nationwide blockade leaving 18 passengers injured. Two of them later died in hospital.
Mirza Fakhrul in a statement on Thursday night had held government ‘agents’ responsible for the arson at Shahbagh. – bdnews24.com
