A Dhaka court on Sunday sentenced eight people including BNP’s joint secretary general Moazzem Hossain Alal to three years in jail in a case filed for torching a bus in Dhanmondi during hartal in 2013.
The court also fined them Tk 10,000 each, in default, to suffer two months more imprisonment, said Mosleh Uddin Jashim, a counsel of Alal.
The other convicts are-Saiful Islam Nirob, former president of Jubo Dal, Abdul Quader Bhuiya Jewel, former president of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), Shafiqul Islam Masud, and secretary of Dhaka south unit Jamaat-e-Islami, Harun-or-Rashid, Obaidul Haque, Shahidul Islam Hira and Ibrahim Hossain.
According to the prosecution, a bus was set on fire on Sat Masjid Road in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi on December 1, 2013.
Abdullah Al Mamun, sub-inspector of Dhanmondi Police Station, filed the case.
On December 15, 2014, police submitted chargesheet against them.
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