<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>A Dhaka court today rejected the bail plea of BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in a case filed over vandalising the chief justice's residence during his party’s grand rally on October 28.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court’s Acting Judge Foysal Atique Bin Quader passed the order after hearing the bail plea placed by Fakhrul's lawyers.  </div><div><br></div><div>Though there was a schedule to hold the hearing of the bail plea on November 20, the court later deferred it till November 22 after the state counsel had filed a petition seeking time.</div><div><br></div><div>On November 2, Advocate Joynul Abedin filed a petition seeking bail for the BNP leader. The court fixed November 20 for the hearing.</div><div><br></div><div>On October 30, a Dhaka metropolitan magistrate sent Fakhrul to jail in the case after the investigating officer produced him before it with a plea to keep him in jail in connection with the case.</div><div><br></div><div>The Detective Branch (DB) of police detained Fakhrul from his Gulshan residence on October 29.</div><div><br></div><div>Nearly 10 hours after his detention, Mirza Fakhrul was shown arrested in the case.</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul, among 59 leaders and activists of BNP, was accused in the case filed with Ramna Police Station. According to UNB reports </div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>