IANS
Dhaka
A Dhaka court yesterday issued a warrant to search the office of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia after police said there could be explosives and fugitives
harboured there.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate S M Masud Zaman issued the search warrant. Police asked for the warrant after the bombing in Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan’s procession in Gulshan on February 16, bdnews24.com reported.
The issuance of the warrant was kept under wraps. Dhaka police’s additional deputy commissioner Mohammad Anisur Rahman confirmed the matter.
The former prime minister has been living in her office for nearly two months since calling for continuous countrywide blockades from January 5.
Nearly 50 people, including several leaders and activists, security personnel and office staff are staying with her.
Last week, the metropolitan sessions judge’s court issued an arrest warrant against Khaleda Zia in the Zia Orphanage Trust and Zia Charitable Trust
corruption cases.
Meanwhile, stray incidents of violence were reported in parts of Dhaka and elsewhere in the country, ahead of BNP-led opposition alliance’s call for another round of strike from Sunday morning.
A Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) official, who did not wish to be named, said miscreants put on fire at least eight vehicles in parts of Dhaka and Narayanganj town on the
outskirts of the capital city.
Vandalism, explosion of crude bombs and detention of dozens of opposition activists were also reported in the capital and elsewhere in the country, Xinhua reported.
Dozens of vehicles were smashed or set on fire on the eve of the strike on Saturday.
Demanding fresh election under a non-party caretaker government system, Bangladesh’s main opposition alliance on Friday called another round of nationwide strike from
Sunday morning.
The strike started at 6am yesterday and will continue till 6am Wednesday, according to Salahuddin Ahmed, the spokesperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).
The strike announcement came just a day after the opposition alliance observed a five-day countrywide strike from February 22 morning amid violent clashes, vandalism, arson and crude bomb attacks.