<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">A Dhaka court today fixed Thursday (December 15) for holding a hearing on the bail petition of BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and the party's standing committee member Mirza Abbas in a case lodged over the clash between party men and police at Nayapaltan in the capital.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><b>&nbsp;</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Rezaul Karim passed the order as the defence pleaded for their bail again.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">On December 13, the court scrapped bail pleas of 224 BNP leaders and activists, including Dhaka Metropolitan South BNP convener M Abdus Salam, BNP publicity secretary Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Annie, joint secretary general Khairul Kabir Khokon, former MP Fazlul Haque Milan and former MP Salim Reza Habib.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">On December 9, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Jasim sent them to jail as police produced the two BNP leaders before the court from the detective branch (DB) office around 4:10 pm.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">During the hearing, police pleaded to keep them behind the bars till the end of the probe in the case.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">DB arrested BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and party standing committee member Mirza Abbas on Friday (December 9).</div><div style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In this regard, DB Chief Mohammad Harun or Rashid said "Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Mirza Abbas were brought for questioning. They were arrested as they were instructors of the BNP-Police clash on December 7."</div><div style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">A man was killed and several others, including policemen, were injured in the clash in front of the BNP central office in Nayapaltan on December 7.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Police filed the case against 473 leaders and activists of the BNP and another 1,500- 2,000 unnamed people, with the capital's Paltan Police Station. BSS</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>