BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy was sent to jail again after he surrendered before a court here on Wednesday in a case filed against him with Rampura Police Station in connection with violence. Metropolitan Session’s Judge M Quamrul Hossain Mollah passed the order rejecting the BNP leader’s bail prayer. Earlier on Tuesday, the court issued a warrant for the arrest of 35 opposition leaders and activists, including Gayeshwar and former Dhaka city mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka, in the case as the accused did not appear before the court during the hearing. The court also asked the officer-in-charge of Rampura Police Station to submit a report before the court by January 27 next on the execution of arrest warrants. On December 29 in 2013, miscreants torched a bus of ‘Suprovat Paribahan’ after vandalising it in the city’s Malibagh Chowdhurypara area during the ‘March for Democracy’ programme called by the BNP-led 18-party alliance. Dakkhinkhan thana unit Shibir president Mansur Prodhania was also killed in a clash between police and the alliance activists at Malibagh on the same day. On December 30 in 2013, sub-inspector of Rampura Police Station Al Mamun filed two cases against 25-30 people with the police station. On March 20, 2015, investigation officer Mamunur Rashid pressed charges against 49 people, including Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, Sadeque Hossain Khoka, Mirza Abbas, Amanullah Aman and Salahuddin Ahmed, in a case filed under the Explosive Substances Act for vandalism and carrying out arson attack. Later, a court took cognisance of the charges against the accused and asked them to appear before the court on November 3. Earlier arrested on December 26 last year in a criminal case, Gayeshwar was released from of Kashimpur Central Jail on bail on July 16. — Dhaka, UNB
