Police Bangladesh yesterday pressed charges against former prime minister Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and 33 others in a violence case.
A local police sub-inspector submitted the charge-sheet in the case which was filed with a police station in Dhaka for allegedly vandalising and torching a vehicle on January 6 last year during the BNP’s anti-government movement.
The hearing on whether the charges will be taken into cognizance is expected to be held on April 22.
A BNP spokesman who did not want to be named termed the cases filed against the party’s leaders as “politically motivated” and said they would fight those legally.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court yesterday extended by seven days its stay order against a High Court order that granted bail to BNP leader Mirza Abbas in a graft case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) for irregularities in allocating plots.
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