108 BNP men sent to jail in sabotage cases in Khulna, Narail

News Desk :
Total 108 leaders and activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) were sent to jail on Wednesday in sabotage cases cancelling their bail prayers in Khulna and Narail districts.
According to our Khulna correspondent, a Khulna court on Wednesday sent 66 BNP leaders and activists, including the party’s Khulna city unit member secretary Shafiqul Alam Tuhin to jail in three sabotage cases.
Khulna Additional Metropolitan and Sessions Judge SM Ashiqur Rahman passed the order turning down their bail pleas.
Khulna Metropolitan BNP convenor Shafiqul Alam Mona alleged that the police filed a case in every police station in Khulna on charges of sabotage to baffle BNP’s divisional rally in Dhaka on December 10.
In these cases, over 50 leaders and activists were arrested and imprisoned for a long time while others secured six weeks’ anticipatory bail from the High Court.
Meanwhile, hundreds of leaders and activists of BNP and affiliated organisations present on the court premises became agitated following the court order.
Our Narail correspondent added that 42 BNP leaders and activists, including Narail district BNP vice-president and former Narail mayor Md Zulfikar Ali Mondal, were sent to jail in two sabotage cases after rejecting their bail prayers.
Judge Almach Hossain Mridha of Khulna District and Sessions Judge Court passed the order on Wednesday noon.
BNP district secretary general and former Narail Sadar upazila chairman Monirul Islam and BNP organising secretary Shahriar Rizvi George, were among them.
Narail district judge court public prosecutor Md Amdadul Islam said police filed two sabotage cases with four police stations in Narail on charges of sabotage in BNP’s divisional rally on December 10.
Total 42 BNP men, including district BNP secretary general, prayed for anticipatory bail surrendering before the court on Wednesday but the court sent them to jail, he added.
The agitated BNP supporters brought out a procession on the court primises demanding withdrawal of the ‘false and fabricated cases’, unconditional release of their activists and resignation of the illegal government.