Ex-BCC mayor Sarwar jailed for snatching police weapon

News Desk :
A Dhaka court on Friday sent BNP joint secretary general and former mayor of Barisal City Corporation (BCC) Mujibur Rahman Sarwar to jail in a case lodged over snatching of a police weapon and vandalizing Liberation War Museum of Bangladesh Police in the capital on October 28.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Jaki Al Farabi passed the order as Paltan police station sub-inspector Farhad Matubbar, also investigation officer of the case, produced the accused before the court and pleaded to keep him behind bars, reports BSS.

Law enforcers in plain clothes detained BNP Joint Secretary General Mujibur Rahman Sarwar early Friday.

Detective Branch (DB) picked him up from a house in Mohammadpur area of the capital around 3:30am.

Police filed the case against BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed and 14 others and 300/400 more unnamed people.

According to the case documents, BNP men following direct order and instigation of BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul, standing committee member Mirza Abbas and Dhaka city unit convener Abdus Salam vandalized the police canteen and museum.

They torched a duty post of police and snatched a pistol and magazine loaded with eight bullets of ASI Ershadul Haque, beating him indiscriminately.

The other accused in the case include Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal, Emran Saleh Prince, Mujibur Rahman Sarwar, Shamsuzzaman Dudu, Habibun Nabi Khan Sohel, and Rafikul Islam Bakul.