Barrister Kazal sent to jail over SCBA polls violence

A court in the city on Thursday sent pro-BNP Blue Panel secretary candidate Barrister Ruhul Quddus Kazal to jail in a case lodged over violence during the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) election, reports BSS.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Saifur Rahman passed the order as the police produced Kazal, also former secretary of the SCBA, before the court after concluding his four-day remand in the case and pleaded to keep him behind the bars till end of the probe.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Nurul Huda Chowdhury on March 10 had placed the pro-BNP lawyer on four-day remand in the case lodged with Shahbagh Police Station.

Police on March 9 arrested Kazal from his Topkhana Road chamber.

Earlier on that day (March 9), another court had placed five other accused lawyers on three-day remand in the case. The five accused are- Advocate Qazi basher Ahmed, Advocate Tushar, Advocate Torikul, Advocate Enamul Haque Sumon and Barrister Osman Chowdhury.