A Dhaka court on Sunday sent 23 leaders and workers of BNP, including the party's Dhaka district unit President Khandakar Abu Ashfaq, to jail in connection with two separate cases lodged under the Explosive Substances act with the Paltan Model and Motijheel police stations.
As the accused were produced before the court this morning, the police asked the court to keep them in jail until the investigation is over.
The defence attorneys, however, pleaded for their bail.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Nurul Huda scrapped the bail pleas and ordered to send them to jail.
On December 8, police filed two separate cases over the clash that took place between police and BNP men in the city's Nayapaltan on December 7.
