<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">The High Court on Monday fixed Tuesday for hearing the bail petitions of BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Standing Committee member Mirza Abbas, in a case over the clash between police and the party activists in the capital’s Nayapaltan on December 7 last year.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">The HC bench of Justice Md Selim and Justice Md Riaz Uddin fixed the date following the BNP leaders’ bail pleas.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Lawyer Sagir Hossain Leone filed separate petitions on their behalf on Monday, said BNP’s Legal Secretary Barrister Kaiser Kamal.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On December 21, Dhaka Metropolitan Session Judge Asaduzzaman rejected the BNP leaders’ bail petitions for the fourth time.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On December 9, a team of Detective Branch (DB) of police picked up Fakhrul and Abbas from their homes in separate raids in the capital city.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Later, they were shown arrested in a case over the clash between police and the party activists in the capital’s Nayapaltan. A Dhaka court sent them to jail rejecting their bail pleas.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On December 12, a Dhaka court rejected the bail petitions of 224 leaders and activists of BNP, including Fakhrul and Abbas.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On December 15, the bail petitions of the two BNP leaders were rejected again.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A Dhaka court ordered to give division facility to them on December 9 and then they were given the division facility from December 13.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">They were accused of instigating, planning and directing an attack on police.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On December 7, a Swechchasebak Dal leader was killed and around 50 others were injured in a clash between police and the BNP activists in front of the party’s Nayapaltan central office, ahead of its December 10 rally.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Police filed four cases at Ramna, Shahjahanpur, Motijheel and Paltan police stations against 720 BNP activists and over 2400 unnamed people in connection with the clash with BNP.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Of the BNP men, 450 were accused in the case filed at Nayapaltan police station, 20 in Motijheel police station case and seven in Shahjahanpur police station case. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>