A Dhaka court has granted police six days to grill in custody BNP leaders Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury and Zahir Uddin Swapan over the killing of a police constable in clashes during the party’s Oct 28 rally. As many as 5 million leaders and activists of the party and its affiliates are accused in cases over false charges, which is unprecedented, according to him. After arresting Swapan, convenor of the party’s media cell, at a house in Gulshan on Thursday, police detained Khosru, a member of its policymaking Standing Committee, in the same area after midnight. Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Standing Committee member Mirza Abbas were arrested earlier in the case. The other accused include Standing Committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy and Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi.
Source: bd News24 November 03, 2023 13:33 UTC