Desk report||
A Dhaka court has ordered BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir into jail in three cases of violence after he surrendered following a Supreme Court order.
BNP lawyers demonstrated outside the courtroom after the bail plea was rejected.
Police later took him to the jail in a prison van.
The Supreme Court on Monday ordered Fakhrul to surrender within Tuesday after scrapping his plea for more time.
Khandaker Mahbub Hossain, Zainal Abedin, Masud Ahmed Talukder and Sanaullah Mia argued for the BNP acting secretary general in the hearing.
They argued that he was scheduled to go to Singapore for treatment on Nov 24.
Talukder told bdnews24.com after the hearing that the Supreme Court only ordered him to surrender.
“It did not say he cannot get bail. The lower court judge has not used his power to give bail,” he said.
Public Prosecutor Abdullah Abu stood for the State.
The BNP acting secretary general was in jail for six months after his arrest on Jan 6 amidst tension over protests marking the first anniversary of the last general election.
The High Court on Apr 16 granted him bail for six months in three cases at Paltan Police Station over torching vehicle, vandalism and bombing.
The High Court gave him bail on June 18 in two other cases lodged with Paltan Police Station and another with Motijheel Police Station until submission of police report. The Supreme Court upheld the order.
On June 21, the High Court granted him bail in the three cases. The bail petitions in these cases were heard and rejected on Tuesday.
The top appeals court ordered a health check-up for Fakhrul after hearing a petition by the State.
The court gave him bail for treatment after the doctors of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman submitted the report on July 13.
He went to Singapore first and then to the US for treatment.
His bail was extended twice until Nov 2 following his appeals.
The appellate bench, headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, rejected his petition for a third extension on Monday and ordered him to surrender before the trial court.
It also ordered resolving a High Court rule over the BNP acting secretary general’s bail within two weeks.