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A Dhaka court on Thursday again dismissed bail petitions of 58 leaders and activists of BNP including its Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Is-lam Alamgir and the party’s Standing Committee Member Mirza Abbas, in a case lodged over the clash between party men and police at the capital’s Naya Paltan on December 7.
Dhaka Additional Chief Metro-politan Magistrate Tofazzal Hossain passed the order aft er holding hearing on the petitions. Earlier on December 14, Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Rezaul Karim had fi xed today to hold hearing on the matter.The court on December 12 had rejected bail petitions of 224 ac-cused including Mirza Fakhrul and Mirza Abbas.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mo-hammad Jasim on December 9 sent BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and the party’s Stand-ing Committee Member Mirza Abbas to jail in the case.
The court had passed the order as police produced the two BNP leaders before the court and pleaded to keep them behind the bars till the end of probe in the case.
The defence, howev-er, pleaded for their bail.One person was killed and sev-eral others including policemen were injured in the clash in front of BNP central offi ce in Naya Paltan on December 7.Police fi led the case against 473 leaders and activists of BNP and an-other 1,500- 2,000 unnamed people, at the capital’s Paltan Police Station.
