Bail petition of Minu, Bulbul, others rejected, sent to jail

RAJSHAHI, Feb 24: A court in Rajshahi this noon rejected bail prayer of 36 leaders and activists of BNP including Mayor of Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) Mosaddeque Hossain Bulbul, BNP Joint Secretary General and former Mayor of RCC Mijanur Rahman Minu, General Secretary of Rajshahi city unit of BNP Shafiqul Haque Milon in police constable Siddhartha Sarker murder and Explosive case and ordered to send them to jail.
Several hundred BNP activists burst into protest at the court premises as soon as Sheikh Merina Sultana, additional chief metropolitan magistrate of Rajshahi rejected the bail petition of the BNP leaders and ordered to send them to jail. Within minutes of the rejection of the bail, BNP leaders and activists were boarded on the prison van and taken to Rajshahi central jail.
BNP activists who demonstrated on the court premises at a brief meeting announced to declare their party programme in connection of arrest of Minu, Bulbul and Milon soon.
Unidentified miscreants hurled cocktails and crude bombs towards a police van infront of Lokenath School in Rajshahi injuring nine policemen on December 26. Injured were admitted to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital. Siddhartha Sarker was sent to Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka when his condition deteriorated. He died there during treatment at the same night.
Two separate cases accusing 350 leaders and activists of BNP and Jamaat were filed in this connection.
UNB adds: The Supreme Court (SC) cancelled on Monday the High Court (HC) order that granted six months' anticipatory bail to former Health and Family Welfare Minister and BNP leader Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain in a money laundering case.
A five-member bench of the Appellate Division of the SC, headed by Chief Justice M Muzammel Hossain, passed the order upon an Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) plea.
Dr Mosharraf's lawyer AJ Mohammad Ali and ACC lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan were present during the hearing.
On February 6, ACC director Nasim Anwar filed the case against Dr Khandaker Mosharraf with Ramna thana in the capital.
On February 10, the HC granted six months' anticipatory bail to the BNP leader in the case.
According to the first information report (FIR), Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain laundered nearly 0.804 million British pounds (equivalent to Tk 95.4 million) to the United Kingdom when he was the Health and Family Welfare Minister during 2001-2006.
After examining the evidence and other documents, the ACC found a fixed term deposit of about 0.804 million British pound in a joint account (AC 108492) of Dr Khandaker Mosharraf and his wife, Bilkis Akter Hossain, at Lloyds TSB Offshore Private Banking, Guernsey.