Vandalism case against Fakhrul, Rizvi, 6 others, begins

Rizvi Ahmed

A Dhaka court Sunday initiated the trial against eight including BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, in a vandalism case lodged in 2012.

The other accused people of the case are- Jamaat-e Islami leader Dr Muhammad Shafiqul Islam Masud, BNP leaders Saiful Alam Nirob, Moazzem Hossain Babu, Azizul Bari Helal, Kazi Rezaul Haque Babu and Khandaker Enamul Haque Enam.

Dhaka Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Tofazzal Hossain framed charges against the eight, after scrapping a dismissal plea from the defence this afternoon. Later, the court fixed September 20 for the next hearing in the case.

According to the case document, on December 9 of 2012, about 250 BNP, Jamaat activists led by Fakhrul and Rizvi blocked a part of the city's Mintu Road under Paltan Model Police Station. They allegedly vandalized a garbage picking truck of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and tossed bombs targeting it.

Md Aynal, driver of the DSCC truck filed the case about the incident. 

On October 23, 2017, the Investigation Officer of the case, DB Police Sub-Inspector Anwar Hossain Khan submitted charge sheet to the court against them. - Special Correspondent