DHAKA, July 10, 2023 (BSS)- A court here today fixed August 29 for submitting
report against BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and the
party's Standing Committee Member Mirza Abbas in a case lodged over the
clashes between police and BNP men in front of Nayapaltan BNP Office on
December 7.

As the Investigation Officer (IO) failed to submit the report today, Dhaka
Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury set the date afresh.

One person was killed and several others, including policemen, were injured
in the clash in front of BNP Central Office in Nayapaltan on December 7.

Police filed the case against 473 leaders and activists of the BNP and other
1,500- 2,000 unnamed people, with the capital's Paltan Police Station.

Separate teams of Detective Branch (DB) of Police arrested Fakhrul and Abbas
from their respective homes on December 8 and showed them arrested in the
case.

Police brought charges of plotting to attack policemen and inciting violence
against the law enforcers, against them.