The law enforcement agencies on Sunday continued arrest of leaders of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party in connection with the cases filed on charges of violence centring the student movement demanding reforms of quotas in government jobs.
BNP standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, and its leaders Amanullah Aman, Sultan Salauddin Tuku, Aminul Haque and Nipun Roy were arrested in the capital on Saturday and early Sunday.
A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court on Sunday placed BNP leaders Amir Khasru, Sultan Salauddin Tuku, and Nipun Roy Chowdhury on three-day remand in a case filed with the Rampura police station.
Metropolitan magistrate Sheikh Sadi passed the order after the police produced them before the court seeking seven-day remand for interrogation, said sub-inspector Ronak Saha, also general recording officer at the Dhaka magistrate court.聽
The case was filed with the Rampura police station on charges of violence in the Rampura area during the recent quota reform movement of the students.
The law enforcement agencies, meanwhile, conducted a search at residences of BNP leader Moazzem Hossain Alal and disappeared BNP leader Ilias Ali on Sunday.聽
Earlier, the police arrested BNP鈥檚 another standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan at his residence and senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi in front of National Press Club in Dhaka on Friday.
Later, a Dhaka magistrate court on Saturday placed Nazrul Islam Khan and Rizvi on one-day remand for interrogation in a case filed with the Paltan police station on July 29, 2024.
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir at a press briefing on Sunday alleged that a huge number of BNP leaders and activists were arrested by the law enforcement agencies.