Law-enforcers taking BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi into custody after the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court granted five-day remand on Sunday to quiz him in a case on vandalising Kazipara metrorail station in the capital. — Collected A Dhaka court has placed eight people including BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Miah Golam Parwar and former vice-president of Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) Nurul Haque Nur to a five-day remand each in a case lodged for vandalising Kazipara Metrorail Station in the capital, reports BSS.
The other remanded accused are BNP leaders Qazi Sayedul Alam Babul, Aminul
Haque, Sultan Salauddin Tuku, MA Salam and activist Mahmudus Salehin.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Moinul Islam passed the order on Sunday as police pleaded to show the accused arrested in the case and place them on a 10-day remand.
According to the case documents, a mob of five to six thousand people ransacked Kazipara Metrorail station from 4:00 pm to 7.30 pm on July 19. They plundered expensive equipment and broke all the glasses, screens, and ticket vending machines, among other things.
The investigation officer in his remand plea said the station suffered a loss of around Tk 1.0 billion by the vandals and the arrestees took part in the anarchy as per their conspiracy to destabilise and ultimately topple the government.
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