A Dhaka court has placed BNP Vice Chairman Shamsuzzaman Dudu and the party’s media cell convener Jahir Uddin Swapan on a two-day remand in a case filed for snatching a pistol and vandalizing Liberation War Museum of Bangladesh Police.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury passed the order on Monday.
Police filed the case against BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed and 14 others and 300/400 more unnamed people on November 1.
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.