Staff Reporter:
A Dhaka court yesterday placed eight people including BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Miah Golam Parwar and former vice-president of Dha-ka University Central Students’ Union (DUCSU) Nurul Haque Nur to five-day remand in a case lodged for vandalizing Kazipara Metrorail Station in the capital’s Mirpur.
The other remanded accused are– BNP leaders Qazi Sayedul Alam Babul, Aminul Haque, Sultan Sa-lauddin Tuku, MA Salam and activist Mahmudus Salehin.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Moinul Islam passed the order as police pleaded to show the accused ar-rested in the case and place them on 10-day remand.
According to the case documents, a mob of five to six thousand people ransacked Kazipara Metrorail station from 4 pm to 7.30 pm on July 19.
They plundered expensive equipment and broke all the glasses, screens, and ticket vending machines, among other things.
The investigation officer, in his remand, plea said the station suffered a loss of around Taka 100 crore by the vandals and the arrestees took part in the anarchy as per their conspiracy to destabilize and ultimately topple the government.
