BNP leader Alal gets three years’ jail in arson case
Monday, 1 January 2024
A Dhaka court on Sunday sentenced eight people including BNP's Joint Secretary General Moazzem Hossain Alal to three years in jail in a case filed for torching a bus in Dhanmondi during hartal in 2013, reports UNB.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Jashim passed the order.
The court also fined them Tk 10,000 each, in default, to suffer two months more imprisonment, said Mosleh Uddin Jashim, a counsel of Alal.
According to the prosecution, a bus was set on fire on Sat Masjid Road in Dhaka's Dhanmondi on December 1, 2013.