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BNP leaders stay underground
[Bangla Daily Star]  BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi landed in Dhaka Central Jail yesterday after a court denied him bail in two cases filed over the recent hartal... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... violence in the capital. A metropolitan magistrate's court also rejected the police petitions seeking to take the BNP leader on a 15-day remand. In another development, the High Court yesterday granted anticipatory bail to BNP politician Mahbubuddin Khokon, an accused in one of the two cases. Rizvi was jugged Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! from the capital's Kakrail area on April 30, the last day of the second back-to-back countrywide shutdown in protest at the disappearance of BNP leader Ilias Ali and his driver. Meanwhile, ...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow... several top BNP leaders, including Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Mirza Abbas, Goyeshwar Chandra Roy and Aman Ullah Aman, remain hiding since April 30, party leaders said. They are not staying at their homes to evade arrest in connection with those cases, they added. The cases -- one for exploding "bombs" in the secretariat compound and the other for torching a bus near the Prime Minister's Office on April 29 -- were filed on Sunday night against big shots of the BNP-led 18-party alliance. The accused include BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul, Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, party standing committee members Mirza Abbas, Goyeshwar Chandra Roy and Hannan Shah and party politician Shahiduddin Chowdhury Anee and Liberal Democratic Party President Oli Ahmed. On April 30, police raided the houses of Mirza Fakhrul, Mirza Abbas, former politician couple Khairul Kabir Khokon and Shirin Sultana, BNP leader Habib-un-Nabi Sohel and Jubo Dal leader Moazzem Hossain Alal. Most of them were not home during the raid, police and BNP sources said. BNP's moves on Wednesday to secure HC bail for the accused leaders have failed. The party yesterday accused the government of influencing the court, and like on Wednesday, pro-BNP lawyers yesterday demonstrated on the court premises demanding withdrawal of the cases. Posted by: Fred 2012-05-04 |
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