BNP leader Mohammad Nabi Ullah Nabi on remand over arson attack on Benapole Express train
A Dhaka court on Saturday placed BNP leader Mohammad Nabi Ullah on a three-day remand on charge of carrying out sabotage activities in the capital.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Farzana Shakila Sumu passed the order after investigation officer (IO) of the case, detective branch (DB) Sub-Inspector Ashraful Alam, produced him before the court with a 7-day remand prayer.
Opposing the police plea, the defense lawyer submitted a petition seeking bail along with cancellation of the remand prayer. After hearing from the both sides, the court rejecting the petition, passed the remand order.
IO in the remand prayer said on November 5, Nabi Ullah with his supporter put blockade on a road from Jatrabari to Dholaipar area and showed local weapons and chanted anti-government slogan, obstructing vehicular movement that created panic among the local people.
They also set fire to two buses of Great Turag Transport what causes damage of Tk 5.80 lakh.
He also said that under the Nabi’s direction, saboteurs carried out arson attacks in different area of the capital. After using the technical surveillance and based on secrete information, police arrested Nabi and his associates.
Early Saturday, police in pain clothes arrested Dhaka Metropolitan South unit BNP Joint Convenor Mohammad Nabi Ullah and seven other party men over their alleged involvement in the fire incident on Benapole Express train.
The other arrestees are – Iqbal Hossain Swapan, Md Russell, Delowar Hakeem Biplab, Md Salauddin, Md Kabir, and Md Hasan Ahmed.
According to Nabi’s family members, Nabi was picked up by plain clothes police from a house in Uttara Sector-11 in the capital at about 12:30am.
Confirming the arrested news, DMP Additional Commissioner Mohammad Harun-or-Rashid said Mohammad Nabi and seven others were arrested based on specific allegations.
At least four passengers, including a child, were killed after the Benapole Express train was set on fire in the Gopibagh area of Sayedabad, Dhaka at around 9pm on Friday, ahead of the 48-hour countrywide hartal enforced by the BNP and its allies from 6am on Saturday.
Nabi, the former president of Jatrabari Thana BNP, is currently serving as the joint convener of the party’s Dhaka Metropolitan South unit.
