<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>A writ petition seeking first class facility in jail for BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Standing Committee member Mirza Abbas was filed Tuesday with the High Court.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The petition was submitted to the bench of Justice KM Kamrul Kader and Justice Mohammad Ali.</div><div><br></div><div>Mirza Fakhrul’s wife Rahat Ara Begum, Mirza Abbas’ wife Afroza Abbas and advocate AJ Mohammad Ali submitted the petition.</div><div><br></div><div>Raising the petition for hearing on Tuesday advocate Ali said “This is a very urgent matter. Two former ministers have not been given division in jail.”</div><div><br></div><div>Later, the bench scheduled the hearing on the petition at 3:00 pm onTuFakhrul, Abbas sent to jail ahead of BNP’s Dhaka rallyesday.</div><div><br></div><div>In the early hours of Friday, 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><br></div><div>Later, they were arrested in a case filed over the clash between police and the party activists in the capital’s Nayapaltan.</div><div><br></div><div>On Monday, a Dhaka court rejected the bail petition of 224 leaders and activists of BNP, including Fakhrul and Abbas, and sent them to jail, pending further legal procedures. UNB</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/kh</div>