Six BNP-Jamaat men land in jail

A Dhaka court has sent six leaders of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami including Sultan Salauddin Tuku to jail in a case lodged over rampaging state-owned Bangladesh Television (BTV) Bhaban at Rampura in the capital, reports BSS.

The five other accused are BNP organising secretary Qazi Sayedul Alam Babul, its Dhaka north city unit member secretary Aminul Haque, MA Salam and Mahmudus Salehin and Jamaat secretary general Miah Golam Parwar.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Arobia Khanam passed the order on Friday as police produced the accused before the court after the end of a five-day remand in the case and pleaded to keep them behind the bars until the end of probe.

The court on July 21 placed the six on a five-day remand.

According to the case documents, around three to four thousands unruly people, allegedly incited by BNP-Jamaat leaders, rammed the gate of BTV and started their rampage on July 18.

They vandalized many vehicles, rooms, machineries and set those on fire. The anarchy caused a loss of Taka around 50 crore to the state-owned TV channel.