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Five BNP leaders denied bail again
[Bangla Daily Star] While five BNP leaders, including Moudud Ahmed, MK Anwar and Rafiqul Islam Miah, have again been denied bail in two cases filed for murder attempt and violence, their party colleague Mir Nasir was juggedI ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! in Chittagong yesterday evening. Law enforcers arrested BNP Chairperson  Khaleda ZiaThree-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... 's adviser Mir Mohammad Nasir Uddin at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chittagong in connection with two arson cases. A joint team of police, detectives, and immigration police picked up Mir Nasir around 9:00pm when the former Chittagong City Corporation mayor was about to board a flight to Dhaka. They took him to Kotwali Police Station. Senior police officials preferring anonymity said Nasir was arrested in connection with two cases filed with Kotwali and Chawkbazar cop shoppes for arson and vandalism of two auto-rickshaws at Kazir Dewry and Chatteswary areas on Wednesday. Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, a little lightbulb figuratively appeared over Bossy's head... Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md Zahirul Haque denied the five BNP leaders bail after defence lawyers moved two separate petitions for the five, two weeks after their bail petitions were first rejected by a magistrate. The three standing committee members of BNP along with BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's Adviser Abdul Awal Mintoo and her Special Assistant Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswas are charged with "attempted murder of cops anad creating violence in the capital". During yesterday's hearing, defence lawyers argued that their clients had been "implicated" in the cases to "politically harass them" and their names were not mentioned in the first information reports (FIRs) of the cases. And so, they should be granted bail. Posted by: Fred 2013-11-29 |
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