Arson at BNP office: 21, including 9 ex-councillors of Barishal, sent to jail

A Barishal court has despatched 21 folks, alongside with 9 worn councillors of Barishal City Company, to penal advanced in three separate conditions filed over an arson assault on the place of work of metropolis BNP on 4 August.

Barishal Chief Judicial Justice of the Peace Md Ashraf Uddin passed the expose at the new time (1 October), rejecting the bail petitions of the accused, court officers talked about.

Nonetheless, the court granted bail to worn councillor of Ward-15 Samjidul Kabir Babu, brooding about his in unhappy health health.

Confirming the topic, plaintiff’s lawyer Hafiz Ahmed Bablu 21 accused folk looked in court to apply for bail in connection with three separate conditions involving vandalism, arson of the BNP place of work and assaults on its leaders and activists at some stage in the mass uprising.

After hearing arguments from both facet, the court denied bail and despatched the accused to penal advanced.

Afzalul Karim, lawyer for the accused and likewise vice-president of the metropolitan Awami League, talked about that an charm would possibly perhaps be filed with the Excessive Courtroom in opposition to the court’s willpower denying the bail.

On 23 August, BNP’s Barishal metropolitan convenor Moniruzzaman Khan Faruk filed a case in opposition to 381 folks with Kotwali Police Region over the assault on the social gathering place of work on 4 August.

Any other 600-700 unidentified folk were also made accused in the case.

Feeble water resources convey minister Zahid Faruk and district Chhatra League President Hemayet Uddin Sumon Serniabat are currently in penal advanced in connection with the case.