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BNP leader Rizvi faces police grilling for three days
A Dhaka magistrate has remanded BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi in police custody for three days.
Published : 1 Feb 2015, 11:25 AM
Updated : 1 Feb 2015, 11:25 AM
Dhaka's Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Alamgir Kabir Raj granted the plea on Sunday for questioning.
Rizvi was produced in court in a case over the torching of a vehicle on the Badda-Gulshan link road on Jan 26 and the Badda Police’s SI Mosharraf Hossain sought a 10-day remand.
On Saturday, Rizvi was arrested at a house in Baridhara and was taken to the Badda Police Station.
He was taken to the Detective Branch office in the evening.
The fugitive BNP spokesperson, who was issuing statements calling for shutdowns and blockades, in the latest media release that called a 72-hour shutdown across Bangladesh that started Sunday.
Amid tension over programmes marking the first anniversary of the last general election on Jan 5, police had taken Rizvi to a hospital when he fell ‘ill’ at the party’s Naya Paltan headquarters on Jan 3.
He sneaked out of the hospital four days later and had since then been issuing the statements from undisclosed places.
At least 40 people have been killed, mostly in arson attacks on vehicles, during the non-stop blockades being enforced by BNP-led alliance demanding snap polls.
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