Sylhet Bureau :
A Sylhet court on Sunday sent 63 leaders and activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its front and associate organisations to jail pertaining to a case filed over plotting subversive activities during last national election.
The district judicial magistrate Farzana Begum issued the order rejecting their bail plea in the afternoon, the court sources said.
Sylhet district’s Balaganj upazila unit vice-chairman of the BNP Suruj Ali, its general secretary Mujibur Rahman Mujib, former union council chairman Luthfur Rahman and union council member Riad Ali are among the accused, the sources said.
When contacted, Sylhet district BNP organising secretary Abdul Ahad Khan Jamal told that the Balaganj police filed a case against some 70 leaders and activists of the upazila BNP and its associate organisations in the December last year on charge of conducting subversive activities in the area during the electioneering of the 11th Jatiya Sangsad Election.
Mentioning the accused leaders and activists were on bail granted by the High Court in the case, Jamal said that 63 leaders and activists of the party appeared before the judicial magistrate court in the morning after filing a petition according to the HC’s directive to regularise their bail in the case.
But, court rejected the bail prayer in the case after holding a hearing on the petition in the afternoon and sent them to jail, the court sources said.
A Sylhet court on Sunday sent 63 leaders and activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its front and associate organisations to jail pertaining to a case filed over plotting subversive activities during last national election.
The district judicial magistrate Farzana Begum issued the order rejecting their bail plea in the afternoon, the court sources said.
Sylhet district’s Balaganj upazila unit vice-chairman of the BNP Suruj Ali, its general secretary Mujibur Rahman Mujib, former union council chairman Luthfur Rahman and union council member Riad Ali are among the accused, the sources said.
When contacted, Sylhet district BNP organising secretary Abdul Ahad Khan Jamal told that the Balaganj police filed a case against some 70 leaders and activists of the upazila BNP and its associate organisations in the December last year on charge of conducting subversive activities in the area during the electioneering of the 11th Jatiya Sangsad Election.
Mentioning the accused leaders and activists were on bail granted by the High Court in the case, Jamal said that 63 leaders and activists of the party appeared before the judicial magistrate court in the morning after filing a petition according to the HC’s directive to regularise their bail in the case.
But, court rejected the bail prayer in the case after holding a hearing on the petition in the afternoon and sent them to jail, the court sources said.
