A court in Dhaka on Wednesday acquitted eight BNP leaders and activists, including Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, from a case filed over arson attack and vandalism of a Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) garbage truck.
Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ziadur Rahman acquitted the BNP men from the case charge after hearing.
Confirming the matter, lawyer Sheikh Shakil Ahmed Ripon said the BNP men were acquitted from the case, filed with Paltan Police Station in 2012, after 12 years. A total of nine were accused in the case. Of them one died.
Among the other acquitted individuals are BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami’s Dhaka Metropolitan South Secretary Muhammad Shafiqul Islam Masud, former Jubo Dal president Saiful Alam Nirab, BNP Information and Research Secretary Azizul Bari Helal, and BNP members Moazzem Hossain Babu, Kazi Rezaul Haque Babu, and Khandaker Enamul Haque Enam.
According to the case statement, some 200-250 BNP leaders and activists, led by Mirza Fakhrul and Rizvi, reportedly blocked Mintu Road at Paltan in the capital, wielding sticks, in December 9, 2012. During the protest, a DSCC garbage truck was vandalised and an explosion occurred.
The driver of the garbage truck Md Aynal filed the case as the complainant.
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