Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) Mayor Mizanur Rahman Minu was sent to jail after he surrendered before a Rajshahi court while former BNP lawmaker Ali Asgar Lobi, former Awami League (AL) lawmaker Obaidul Quader and Tarique Rahman's business partner Giasuddin Al Mamun were remanded on different terms yesterday.An assault case was meanwhile filed against detained former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar in Netrakona while an extortion case was lodged against former AL lawmaker Advocate Rahmat Ali with a Gazipur court yesterday.
The joint forces yesterday arrested Dhamrai Pourasabha Chairman and local BNP leader Dewan Nazim Uddin Manju on different charges including land grabbing and extortion.
Our correspondent in Rajshahi reports: A Rajshahi Metropolitan Magistrate Court yesterday sent Mizanur Rahman Minu, Rajshahi district BNP Vice President Nazrul Huda and former city BNP general secretary Shafiqul Haque Milon to jail after they surrendered before it following a High Court (HC) order over an extortion case. Earlier on May 28, an HC bench asked Minu and two others to surrender before the court within three weeks.
Shamsul Alam Khan, a governing body member of Evergreen Model College, filed the case with Rajpara Police Station on April 21 accusing 11 persons and Sub-Inspector Abdur Rahman Sarkar pressed charges against them on May 16. According to charges, at the direction of Minu the accused waylaid Shamsul Alam at the Baharampur bypass intersection on March 29 and demanded Tk 4 lakh toll. They also assaulted him.
Minu allegedly called Shamsul and college Principal Abu Yusuf Selim at his office last year and requested them to include Nazrul and Milon in the college's governing body. As Shamsul did not agree to do it, Nazrul, Milon and Sentu went to the college and demanded Tk 1 lakh toll on July 4 last year. They forcibly took away bricks worth Tk 25,000 and furniture worth Tk 13,000 from the college.