Dhaka magistrate courts on Friday sent seven people including Bangladesh Jatiya Party chairman Andaleeve Rahman Partho and BNP chairperson鈥檚 special assistant Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswas to jail rejecting their bail petitions in violence cases.
Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Humayun Kabir鈥檚 court sent six people including BNP leaders Shimul Biswas, Saiful Alam Nirob, Rafiqul Islam Majnu, to jail on completion of their remand in connection with a case filed over setting fire to the BTV building at Rampura.
Besides, Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Rashidul Alam sent Jatiya Party chairman Andaleeve Rahman Partho to jail rejecting his bail petition in a case filed over vandalising and setting fire to the Setu Bhaban in the capital鈥檚 Banani area
The court passed the order as the detective branch of police produced him before the court on completion of his three-day remand and聽 pleading to keep him in jail till the end of probe in the case.
On July 30, a Dhaka court placed Partho on three-day remand in second phase in the case filed with the Banani police station.
Earlier, Partho was also placed on five-day remand in the same case on July 25 after his arrest by the detective branch of the police in the capital鈥檚 Baridhara area on July 24.
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police had arrested over 3,000 people in connection with cases filed over violence in Dhaka during the quota protests.
Law enforcement agencies have arrested over 10,000 people across Bangladesh, mostly leaders and activists of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, since July 15, following the student protests that left over 200 people killed.
It was alleged that the police continued countrywide arrest drives in connection with cases filed on charges of violence during the student protests demanding reform of the quota system in government jobs.
