BSS
  28 Jul 2024, 18:15

8 including Rizvi, Parwar remanded in case for vandalizing Metrorail station

DHAKA, July 28, 2024 (BSS) - A Dhaka court today placed eight people 
including BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Jamaat-e-
Islami secretary general Miah Golam Parwar and former vice-president of Dhaka 
University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) Nurul Haque Nur to five-day remand 
in a case lodged for vandalizing Kazipara Metrorail Station in the capital's 
Mirpur.

The other remanded accused are-- BNP leaders Qazi Sayedul Alam Babul, Aminul 
Haque, Sultan Salauddin Tuku, MA Salam and activist Mahmudus Salehin.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Moinul Islam passed the order as police pleaded 
to show the accused arrested in the case and place them on 10-day remand.

According to the case documents, a mob of five to six thousand people 
ransacked Kazipara Metrorail station from 4 pm to 7.30 pm on July 19.

They plundered expensive equipment and broke all the glasses, screens, and 
ticket vending machines, among other things.

The investigation officer, in his remand, plea said the station suffered a 
loss of around Taka 100 crore by the vandals and the arrestees took part in 
the anarchy as per their conspiracy to destabilize and ultimately topple the 
government.