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| Altaf, Hafiz sent to jail |
| 2011-06-14 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Former BNP ministers Altaf Hossain Chowdhury and Hafiz Uddin Ahmed, who were tossed in the slammer in the capital during hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... on Sunday, were sent to jail yesterday in connection with a case filed against them for setting fire to a vehicle on June 11. First Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Dhaka AHM Habibur Rahman Bhuiyan passed the order sending them to jail after they were produced before it with a ten-day remand prayer in two cases. The court however granted bail to them in another case for setting fire to a vehicle on June 4 in the city's Mohakhali area. Gulshan police produced the two BNP leaders before the court with a remand prayer and the court fixed June 15 for hearing the prayer. In the forwarding reports, the investigation officers (IO) of the cases mentioned that on instructions of the two leaders their supporters had set fire to two passengers' vehicles that created anarchy among the people. So, they need to be remanded to find out vital clues to the incidents. Opposing the prayers, defence lawyers submitted petitions for bail along with cancellation of remand prayers, adding that their clients were implicated in the cases as part of a conspiracy to harass them. After hearing both the sides, the magistrate cancelled remand prayer and granted them bail in the case filed with Gulshan Police Station on June 4. The court also directed the jail authorities to produce them before it on the scheduled date when the remand hearing will be held. |
| Posted by:Fred |