A Dhaka court on Sunday placed eight people, including BNP’s senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Miah Golam Parwar and Gono Odhikar Parishad president Nurul Haque Nur on five-day remand in a case filed over setting fire to the metro rail station in Dhaka’s Mirpur.
Five other accused are BNP’s organising secretary Kazi Sayedul Alam Babul, publicity secretary Sultan Salauddin Tuku, Dhaka North City unit member secretary Aminul Haque, BNP’s Bagerhat unit convener MA Salam and activist Mahmudus Salehin.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Moinul Islam passed the order as the investigation officer of the case Md Asaduzzaman Munshi pleaded to show the accused arrested in the case and place them on 10-day remand.
According to the case statement, a mob of 5,000-6,000 people carried out vandalised Kazipara metro rail station from 4:00 pm to 7:30 pm on July 19.
They plundered expensive equipment and broke all the glasses, screens and ticket vending machines, among other things, causing damages of around Taka 100 crore.
On July 22, deputy director, administration, of MRT Line-6 of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited, Imam Uddin Kabir, filed a case at Kafrul police station accusing 5,000-6,000 unnamed people.
