<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>A Dhaka court on Sunday sentenced eight people including BNP’s joint secretary general Moazzem Hossain Alal to three years in jail in a case filed for torching a bus in Dhanmondi during hartal in 2013.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Jashim passed the order.</div><div><br></div><div>The court also fined them Tk 10,000 each, in default, to suffer two months more imprisonment, said Mosleh Uddin Jashim, a counsel of Alal.</div><div><br></div><div>The other convicts are-Saiful Islam Nirob, former president of Jubo Dal, Abdul Quader Bhuiya Jewel, former president of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), Shafiqul Islam Masud, and secretary of Dhaka south unit Jamaat-e-Islami, Harun-or-Rashid, Obaidul Haque, Shahidul Islam Hira and Ibrahim Hossain.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the prosecution, a bus was set on fire on Sat Masjid Road in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi on December 1, 2013.</div><div><br></div><div>Abdullah Al Mamun, sub-inspector of Dhanmondi Police Station, filed the case.</div><div><br></div><div>On December 15, 2014, police submitted chargesheet against them. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>