A Dhaka court on Thursday granted time to 26 people including BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir of the charges in a case filed for an arson attack that left a bus driver dead in 2014.
After scrutinising the case dockets and other relevant documents, Metropolitan Magistrate Khurshid Alam passed the order.
The court also accepted the charges against six accused.
Earlier on September 6 last year, detectives pressed charges against the six people dropping the names of Fakhrul and the25 others.
Bus driver Mohammad Babul Howlader and two passengers sustained critical injuries when a bus was set aflame near Shahbagh on January 3, 2014.
Babul Howlader, who received eight percent burn injuries, succumbed later.