Gayeshwar lands in Jail, 54 remanded

Staff Correspondent: A Dhaka court has sent BNP Standing Committee Member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy a case filed for attacking policemen and vandalising vehicles in Dhaka.

The court also ordered to interrogate the party leader Farid Ahmed Juwel at jail gate in the same case.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate court Mahmudul Hasan passed the order rejecting their bail prayers and remand petitions against them in the case filed with Ramna Police Station.

Gayeshwar was arrested from in front of Police Plaza on Tuesday night while other BNP leaders from different parts of Dhaka.

The court also placed Anindya Islam Anik, son of BNP leader Tariqul Islam, on a three-day remand and 35 others out of the 38 accused on a two-day remand in the same case.

The same court put 18 other BNP leaders on two-day remand in two cases filed with Shahbagh Police Station.

Three lawsuits have been filed against several hundred BNP men, including its frontline leader Goyeshwar Chandra Roy, over yesterday’s incident near the High Court in the capital.

Two cases were recorded with Shahbagh Police Station last night for attacking a prison van near High Court area while another case was filed with Ramna Police Station for beating policemen and vandalising vehicles.

According to primary statements, all the cases allege obstruction of police duty, attacking police, destruction of state property and disrupting the law and order situation.

Hundreds of BNP men swooped on police on Tuesday and snatched away some of their fellows who were detained. In the process, three policemen were injured and a prison van was vandalised.

The incident happened on Tuesday afternoon when the motorcade of party Chairperson Khaleda Zia was crossing the area on way to her Gulshan home from a court in Bakshibazar, said witnesses.

risingbd/Dhaka/January 31, 2018/Mamun Khan/A K Azad