UNB, Chittagong :
A court here on Tuesday rejected the bail petition of Nurul Azim Rony, general secretary of Chittagong city unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League in an arms case.
Chittagong Judicial Magistrate Abu Reza passed the order after Rony’s counsel Advocate Eftekhar Saimul Chowhdury filed a petition before the court seeking bail for his client. Eftekhar yesterday said “We will file a petition with the High Court soon against the two year jail sentenced by a mobile court”.
Besides, the leaders and activists of BCL staged demonstrations and brought out a protest rally in front of the deputy commissioner’s office following the court order.
On May 7, police arrested Nurul Azim Rony, 26, general secretary of city unit Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) from Chariaboard Government Primary School polling centre in Hathazari upazila during voting in the union parishad elections, and recovered a firearm from his possession. A case was filed with Hathazari Police Station.
