Court Correspondent :The Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court of Dhaka on Sunday rejected the bail petitions of BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and three other leaders.Other two leaders are Standing Committee: member Mirza Abbas and Dhaka City BNP Member Secretary Abdus Salam. Besides, the court rejected the bail petition of another Standing Committee member Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain in a money laundering case.Judge-in-Charge of the court Md Ruhul Amin passed the orders after hearing on separate bail petitions.Advocates Sanaullah Mia, Masud Ahmed Talukder and other pro-BNP lawyers moved the petitions on behalf of BNP leaders.Two cases were filed against Fakhrul in connection with arson attacks on two buses at Shahbagh and Paribagh in the city. Abbas is accused in three cases of violence, while a case was filed against Salam. The three were sent to jail after they surrendered to Dhaka’s Chief Magistrate (CMM) Court on March 16.On March 14, a Dhaka court rejected Mosharraf’s bail petition and placed him on a three-day remand in a money laundering case.The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) filed the case against him on February 6 for laundering about Tk 95 million from 2001 to 2006, when he was the Health Minister.He was arrested from his Gulshan residence in the capital on March 12 in the case. Fakhrul appeared to the court in four cases. Of those, three were filed with Paltan Police Station, while another case was filed with Ramna Police Station. The three leaders surrendered to the trial court complying the directive of the Supreme Court on March 16.On the day, Mosharraf was also produced to the court on completion of the three-day remand in the money laundering case and he was sent to the jail rejecting his bail petition. Earlier, Fakhrul and four other BNP leaders were granted an eight-week ad interim bail by the High Court Division on January 20, but following a government appeal, a five-member bench of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court scrapped the HC order. The apex court directed them to surrender to the CMM Court and seek bail there.When the sub-ordinate court said, “This court has no jurisdiction to grant them bail in the murder cases as the Appellate Division had earlier cancelled their anticipatory bail granted by the High Court in the cases.”
