Politics

BNP leader Aminul Haque put on 8-day remand

A court in Dhaka has placed Dhaka North City BNP member secretary Aminul Haque and two others on an eight-day remand in a case over an alleged attack on police and snatching pistol, shotgun and rifle from them and vandalism.

The two others are Dhaka North City Jubo Dal member secretaries Sazzadul Miraz and Golam Kibria.

The court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Nurul Huda Chowdhury passed the order after police had produced them before the court, seeking a 10-day remand.

They were arrested from a house at Gulshan in the capital early Thursday.

Sub-inspector Mahbubur Rahman Munshi of Khilgaon Police Station filed the case against 55 people, including BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir with Paltan Police Station over an alleged attack on police and snatching pistol, shotgun and rifle from them and vandalism during BNP's October 28 grand rally at Nayapaltan in Dhaka.

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