Comilla arson case: Khaleda, 77 others indicted

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UNB, Comilla :
Police pressed charges against 78 leaders and activists of BNP-led 20-party alliance, including BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, in a case filed over arson attack on a bus that claimed lives of eight people in Chouddagram upazila in 2015..
Mohammad Ibrahim, sub-inspector of Chouddagram Police station, submitted the chargesheet to the concerned ection of the district court on Monday, said
 Abu Foysal, officer-in-charge of Chouddagram Police Station.
On February 3, 2015, eight people were burned to death when a group of miscreants set a bus of ‘Icon Paribahan’ afire by hurling petrol bomb on Dhaka-Chittagong highway at Jagamohonpur in Chouddagram upazila during the countrywide blockade programme enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance.
Police filed a case against 56 identified and 15/20 unidentified people in this connection.
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