15 including BNP leaders Habib, Shahjahan jailed for four years

A Dhaka court has sentenced 15 leaders and activists of BNP, including the party chairperson's advisor Habibur Rahman Habib and party vice-chairman and former lawmaker M Shahjahan to four years ‘imprisonment each, in two separate cases, reports BSS.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Jasim sentenced them each to two years in prison for setting fire on a bus, and two years more for obstructing police from doing their work.
The court also fined them Tk 10,000 each, in default, to suffer one month more in jail.
The other convicts are former lawmaker Mohammad Ahsan Habib Lincoln, BNP's village government affairs assistant secretary M Belal Ahmed, joint publicity secretary M Shamimur Rahman Shamim, Tauhidul Islam Tuhin, Monirul Haque Monir, M Didarul Islam, Masud Rana, Abdur Razzak, Ziaul Islam Jewel, M Arif, M Nishan Mia, M Mahmudul Hasan Sumon and Mozammel Haque.
The court acquitted four more accused of the case. They are M. Kofil Uddin, Din Islam, Mohammad Mamun and Aminul Islam as the charges against them could not be proved.
According to the case, On January 4, 2015, around 5:30pm, a group of BNP men set a bus to fire at Pragati Sarani under Bhatara thana and created a chaos, during the ongoing blockade of the 20-party alliance to deliberately obstruct the police from doing their work.
Sub-Inspector Nazrul Islam of Bhatara thana filed this case on the same day.