45 BNP men including Rizvi, Aman indicted in sabotage case

A court in Dhaka on Monday framed charges against 45 leaders and activists of BNP, including its Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi and Dhaka North City unit BNP Convener Amanullah Aman, in a sabotage case filed with Mohammadpur Police Station.

As Rizvi is on the run, the court issued an arrest warrant against him.

Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Tofazzal Hossain passed the order, fixing January 4 to start recording the deposition of the witnesses.

The other prominent accused in the case are- Barkat Ullah Bulu, Ruhul Quddus Talukder Dulu, Saiful Alam Nirob and Ishaq Sarker.

According to the case documents, BNP men allegedly hurled a petrol bomb on a passenger bus, setting it on fire in Mohammadpur Beribadh area on January 17, 2015. Six to seven passengers were injured in the incident. 

Police, later, filed the case in this connection.

Investigation officer Kamal Krishna Saha on August 23, 2016, filed charge-sheet against 45 accused.

Source: BSS