Staff Reporter :
The High Court has cleared the way for the lower court concerned to continue the trial proceedings of a case filed against eight people, including BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, in a garbage truck vandalism case lodged in 2012.
The HC on Tuesday summarily rejected a petition filed by Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir seeking cancellation of the charge framing order in the case filed with Paltan Model Police Station in the capital.
The High Court bench of Justice Md Salim and Justice Md Riaz Uddin Khan passed the order after holding hearing on the petition filed recently by Mirza Fakhrul.
Now there is no bar for the lower court concerned to continue the trial proceedings of the case against the BNP Secretary General, said Deputy Attorney General Tushar Kanti Roy who represented the state in the court hearing.
Lawyer Zainul Abedin appeared in the court hearing on behalf of the BNP leader.
Earlier on September 3 this year, a Dhaka court framed charges against eight people, including BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, in the case.
According to the case document, on 9 December 2012, around 200/250 BNP and Jamaat activists led by Fakhrul and Rizvi blocked a part of the city’s Mintu Road under Paltan Model Police Station.
They vandalised a garbage truck of the Dhaka South City Corporation and tossed bombs targeting it.
Md Aynal, driver of the truck, filed a case in this connection.
On 23 October 2017, the Investigating Officer of the case, DB Police Sub-Inspector Anwar Hossain Khan pressed chargesheet against the accused.
The others accused in the case are- Muhammad Shafiqul Islam Masud, Saiful Alam Nirob, Moazzem Hossain Babu, Azizul Bari Helal, Kazi Rezaul Haque Babu and Khandaker Enamul Haque Enam.