A Dhaka court has sent Awami League Presidium member and former minister engineer Mosharraf Hossain and Bangladesh People’s Party (BPP) chairman Babul Sardar Chakhari to jail after their three-day remand in an attempted murder case.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Jewel Rana passed the order on Saturday. The court had granted a three-day remand for the accused on June 18.
On Saturday, investigating officer Sub-Inspector Biman Tarafdar of Paltan Police Station submitted a petition seeking their jail custody, which the court approved.
Engineer Mosharraf Hossain, former Housing and Public Works minister, was arrested by the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police on October 27 last year. Babul Chakhari was arrested from his residence in the capital on November 18.
The case stems from an incident on October 28, 2023, when a rally was organised demanding a neutral election under a caretaker government, protesting alleged enforced disappearances, killings, price hikes, and oppression during Sheikh Hasina’s government.
The rally was called by BNP and Gono Odhikar Parishad along with other like-minded political parties based on a consensus among all political parties in the country. Badrul Islam Saimon, a Gono Odhikar Parishad activist and victim, participated in the peaceful rally when the accused allegedly launched an unprovoked attack. During indiscriminate firing by the accused, Saimon was injured and later hospitalised.
On April 29 this year, Badrul Islam Saimon filed the case as plaintiff, naming 245 people, including Sheikh Hasina as accused in the charge sheet.
The court proceedings continue as the investigation progresses in this high-profile case involving prominent political figures.