Court Correspondent :The Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court of Dhaka yesterday (Sunday) issued arrest warrant against 28 leaders and activists of BNP-led 20-party alliance in a case filed on the charge of crude bomb attack on a passenger bus in Mirpur area of the city in January last.Judge Kamrul Hossain Mollah of court passed the order of arrest warrants taking into cognisance the charges against 42 BNP leaders and activists in the case. Of the accused 28 did not appear to the court on Sunday. The court directed the Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Mirpur Model Police Station to submit reports by July 7 about the execution of arrest warrant.On April 22, the police station official submitted the charge sheet against 42 leaders and activists of the 20-party alliance including Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed and Mosaddek Ali Falu in an arson case.Fourteen BNP men, including Rizvi Ahmed and Mosaddek Ali Falu, Adviser to BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia, are now in jail while others including Barrister Rafiqul Islam Miah and Advocate Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswas are on the run in the case.According to the case statement, the accused instigated the alliance activists to torch a bus at Mirpur Section-1 area on January 28 during their anti-government movement.
