Metropolitan Sessions Judge Mohammad Zahurul Hoque passed the order as the Sherlocks moved a prayer for warrants showing them runaways in the case.
The others facing arrest are former prime minister
Khaleda Zia'sThree-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ...
political secretary Harris Chowdhury, BNP politician Kazi Shah Mofazzal Hossain Kaikobad, former director general of Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) Maj Gen (retd) ATM Amin, former DGFI officer Lt Col (sacked) Saiful Islam Joarder, former deputy commissioner (DC-East) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Obaidur Rahman, former DC-DMP (South) Khan Sayeed Hassan, owner of Hanif Paribahan Mohammad Hanif and three leaders of outlawed Harkat ul Jihad al Islami (HuJI)
Founded in 1984 by Fazlur Rehman Khalil and Qari Saifullah Aktar. The Bangla branch was established in 1992 with assistance from Osama bin Laden. Recruits come mostly from Deobandi madrassahs. HuJI and Fazlur Rehman Khalil are signators of bin Laden's declaration of war on the west.
Omar Abu Humayra alias Pir Saheb Baba, Hafez Moulana Yahiya Babu alias Ratul Babu and Mufti Abdul Hye.
At the beginning of the day's proceedings, the court took into cognisance the charges against Tarique, elder son of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, and 29 others.
It directed officers-in-charge of different cop shoppes to submit reports by July 26 on execution of the arrest warrants.
The judge denied bail to former DG of National Security Intelligence Maj Gen (retd) Rezzaqul Haider Chowdhury.
Police produced former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar, Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, former BNP deputy minister Abdus Salam Pintu, HuJI chief Mufti Abdul Hannan and 25 others before the court yesterday.
Another accused, Ariful Islam Arif, a ward councillor of Dhaka City Corporation and now on bail, was also present in the court.
On July 3, a metropolitan magistrate's court issued arrest warrants against 18 accused in the murder case lodged for killing 24 Awami League leaders and workers in the gruesome grenade attack on an AL rally at Bangabandhu Avenue in 2004.
Earlier on that day, the Criminal Investigation Department submitted supplementary charge sheets in the August 21 blast cases, accusing 30 including the 18.
The next day, the court sent three former top coppers--Ashraful Huda, Khoda Baksh Chowdhury and Shahudul Haque--to jail on their surrender.
Three former CID high-ups--Ruhul Amin, Munshi Atiqur Rahman and Abdur Rashid--also surrendered before the court on July 6. The court turned down their bail prayers and sent them behind bars.
The CID on June 11 in 2008 submitted charge sheets in the cases against 22 people, including Pintu and 21 HuJI men.