Court Correspondent :A Dhaka court on Sunday sent BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and two other leaders to jail rejecting their bail pleas in the cases.Other two leaders are : Standing Committee member Mirza Abbas and Dhaka City BNP Member Secretary Abdus Salam.Magistrate Shahriar Mahmud Adnan of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court of Dhaka passed the order. The BNP leaders were taken to the Central Jail at about 1 pm. Fakhrul arrived at the chamber of his lawyer Md Mohsin Mia at 10 am to appear in four cases. Of the four cases, 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.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.Sunday’s order of the sub-ordinate court says, “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.” After the CMM Court order, pro-BNP lawyers brought out a procession on the premises of the court protesting the decision of the court.Of the cases three were filed with Ramna PS on chargers of provoking terrorism and arson attack on buses during the BNP-led opposition’s agitation at Bangla Motor and Malibagh areas in the capital.Mirza Fakhrul is an accused of Ramna Police Station case No. 7(1)14, Salam is an accused in Ramna PS case No, 42(9)13, while Mirza Abbas is accused in three cases including these two. The three cases were filed for murder. Although, earlier, these were not called murder cases, but later the cases were turned into murder cases. On behalf of the BNP leaders, Advocates Netai Roy Chowdhury, Joynal Abedin, Sanaullah Mia, Khorshed Alam and other lawyers appeared to the CMM Court, while on behalf of the prosecution Advocate Abdullah Abu vehemently opposed the bail pleas.
