DHAKA, Nov 03, 2023 (BSS) - A court here today sent BNP joint secretary general and former mayor of Barishal City Corporation (BCC) Mujibur Rahman Sarwar to jail in a case lodged over snatching of police weapon and vandalizing Liberation War Museum of Bangladesh Police here on October 28.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Jaki Al Farabi passed the order as investigation officer and Paltan Police Station sub-inspector Farhad Matubbar produced the accused before the court and pleaded to keep him behind the bars.

Police filed the case against BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed and 14 others and 300/400 more unnamed people.

According to the case documents, BNP men following direct order and instigation of BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, standing committee member Mirza Abbas and Dhaka city unit convener Abdus Salam vandalized police canteen and museum. They torched a duty post of police and snatched a pistol and magazine loaded with eight bullets of ASI Ershadul Haque, beating him indiscriminately.

The other accused in the case include Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal, Emran Saleh Prince, Mujibur Rahman Sarwar, Shamsuzzaman Dudu, Habibun Nabi Khan Sohel and Rafikul Islam Bakul.