<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>A Dhaka court on Wednesday rejected the bail petitions of BNP standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury and its media cell convener Zahir Uddin Swapan in a case filed over the killing of a policeman during BNP rally on October 28.&nbsp;</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Judge Faisal Atiq Bin Kader of the First Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court of Dhaka passed the order after hearing the bail petitions.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The court also rejected the bail plea of BNP organising secretary Emran Saleh Prince in a case filed over snatching firearms.</div><div><br></div><div>State counsel Taposh Kumar Paul confirmed the bail rejection.</div><div><br></div><div>Advocate Joynal Abedin Mesbah appeared for the accused.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested Amir Khasru from his Gulshan residence around 1:45am on November 2. During the same time, BNP media cell convener and former MP Zahir Uddin Swapan was arrested from another house in Gulshan.</div><div><br></div><div>On November 3, the court placed them on a six-day remand. They were sent to jail on November 9 after remand.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Constable Amirul Islam Parvez was beaten to death in a clash between police and BNP activists that broke out during the party’s grand rally on October 28.</div><div><br></div><div>The next day, Sub-Inspector Masuk Mia of Paltan Model Police Station filed a murder case, naming BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir as the main accused.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>A total of 164 people, including top BNP leaders, were named in the case.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, BNP organising secretary Emran Saleh Prince is currently in jail in a case filed with Paltan Police Station on charges of snatching a firearm and vandalising the Liberation War Museum of Bangladesh Police. According to UNB reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>