Separate Dhaka courts yesterday sent Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Amanullah Aman to jail in a number of cases filed for arson attacks and vandalism during the BNP-led 20-party alliance’s blockade and general strike programme.
Ten chief metropolitan magistrate courts, one senior judicial magistrate court and one metropolitan sessions’ judge court rejected the bail petitions of the BNP leader in 56 cases when he surrendered before the courts in 71 cases yesterday.
Of the 71 cases, Aman was granted bail in seven while the hearing on eight more cases was deferred as the case documents were not produced before the court.
Meanwhile, four chief metropolitan magistrate courts granted bail to BNP senior leader MK Anwar in six cases filed for arson attack and vandalism.
Chief metropolitan magistrates Ashoke Kumar Dutta, Aminul Haque, Asaduzzaman Nur and Tarek Mainul Bhuiya passed the orders when he surrendered before their courts on completion of his four-week bail granted by the High Court earlier.
Hearing on the bail petition of BNP chairperson adviser Abdul Awal Mintoo was also deferred for lack of case document.
Earlier, three senior BNP leaders MK Anwar, Abdul Awal Mintoo and Amanullah Aman surrendered before separate Dhaka courts in the cases filed for arson attacks and vandalism.
On July 27, the Supreme Court ordered the three BNP leaders to surrender before the lower court within one week.
