News Desk :
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was shown arrested nine hours after his detention by law enforcement forces on Sunday.
“He has been shown arrested in two cases filed with Paltan Police Station over the killing of a police constable and arson incidents during BNP’s Saturday rally in the capital,” DMP Commissioner Md Habibur Rahman told the media on Sunday evening.
Meanwhile, DMP (media) Deputy Commissioner Md Faruk Hossain said, “Mirza Fakhrul was arrested in the case filed with Ramna police station over vandalism in the residence of Chief Justice and was sent to a Dhaka court.”
At least 28 cases have been filed against 832 named BNP leaders, including prominent figures like BNP General Secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Standing Committee Member Mirza Abbas on charges of exploding cocktails targeting police and snatching law enforcers’ weapons during the party’s grand rally in Nayapaltan on Saturday.
Additionally, thousands of unnamed individuals have also been sued in these cases, which were filed with various police stations across the city.
In the early morning, Mirza Fakhrul was picked up by the Detective Branch (DB) of the police from his Gulshan residence for questioning regarding the violence and the death of a policeman during BNP’s Saturday rally in the capital.
With these two new cases, the lawsuits against the BNP secretary general have now reached one hundred, as per Fakhrul’s earlier claim of facing 98 cases.
Earlier, the BNP said in a media release that the members of law enforcement forces surrounded BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir’s residence in Gulshan (H-18, Road-71, Gulshan-2) to detain him.
