BNP, allies call off strike threat at Narayanganj after Taimur's bail

The 20-Party alliance has called off its general strike call at Narayanganj for Thursday after BNP leader Taimur Alam Khandaker secured bail.

On Tuesday afternoon Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rezaul Karim rejected a remand plea and granted bail to Khandaker.

He was arrested on Monday on charge of a breach of contract.

A protest rally at Narayanganj on Tuesday demanded his release within 48 hours, failing which it threatened a dawn-to-dusk shutdown in the city.

A former BRTC chairman, Khandaker was detained in front of Meherba Plaza at Dhaka's Bijoynagar in a case filed by one Ruhul Arefin on Sep 11.

He was taken to the Detective Branch office after his arrest.

According to the case details, Arefin had leased the basement of the building belonging to the Bangladesh National Federation of the Deaf at Bijoynagar for 60 years in 1986.

Khandaker is the organisation’s president.

Arefin claimed he was yet to get the full possession of the basement and moved court.

The notice of the case had been put up on the building.

Paltan Police Station's sub-Inspector Ohiduzzaman, investigating the case, said the plaintiff claimed Khandaker and his men had taken off the notice and threw Arefin’s goods out of the basement on Sep 11.