Former state minister Zahid Faruk sent to jail

A Barishal court docket this day (23 September) sent faded narrate minister for water resources Zahid Faruk Shamim to jail in a case filed over arson attacks in Barishal district and city BNP offices.

Advance to a resolution Nurul Amin of Barishal Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court docket handed the expose after rejecting Zahid Faruk’s bail petition.

Afzalul Karim, vice president of Barishal Metropolitan Awami League and Zahid Faruk’s licensed unswerving, instructed TBS that they sought bail for the faded narrate minister, citing his heart condition and the necessity for clinical institution remedy.

The court docket responded by declaring that he [Zahid] would gain acceptable care in step with the jail code.

On 4 August, the district and metropolitan BNP offices had been vandalised, attacked and pickle on fire in Barishal.

On 23 August, Metropolitan BNP convener Moniruzzaman Khan Farooq filed a case with Kotwali Mannequin Police Space accusing Faruk and 700 others for the attacks.

Zahid Faruk used to be arrested from the capital’s Baridhara apartment last (22 September) evening.