A Dhaka magistrate court on Thursday placed six people, including main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi and Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Miah Golam Parwar on three-day remand each in a case filed over vandalising and setting Setu Bhaban on fire on July 18.
Metropolitan Magistrate Md Rashidul Alam passed the order after Detective Branch produced them before the court seeking fresh 10-day remand in the case filed with the Banani police station.
Opposing the remand petition, defence lawyers submitted a bail petition for the accused, but the court rejected the plea after hearing.
The other accused are BNP organising secretary Qazi Sayedul Alam Babul, its Dhaka north city unit member secretary Aminul Haque, publicity secretary聽 Sultan Salauddin Tuku, and Bagerhat district convener MA Salam.
The accused were produced before the court on completion of their five-day remand in a case filed with the Kafrul police station over fire at a metro rail station in the capital鈥檚 Mirpur.
Dhaka chief metropolitan magistrate鈥檚 court, meanwhile, on Thursday sent 54 more people to jail in connection with the cases filed over violence during quota reform student protests.
Of them, BNP chairperson鈥檚 adviser Zahir Uddin Swapan, and Gono Odhikar Parishad president and former DUCSU vice-president Nurul Haque Nur were sent to jail on completion of their five-day remand in a case filed over metro station in the capital鈥檚 Mirpur on July 19.
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police had arrested a total of 2,957 people from the capital till Wednesday in connection with cases filed over violence in Dhaka during the quota protests.
Starting with block raids and other drives, police and other law enforcement agencies have arrested over 10,000 people across Bangladesh, mostly leaders and activists of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, since July 15, following the student protests that left over 200 people killed.
It was alleged that police continued countrywide arrest drives in connection with cases filed on charges of violence during the student protests against the quota system in the civil service.
The law enforcement agencies including police, RAB, and DB, however, stopped providing data since Wednesday regarding arrests of the people in connection with the cases.