Alal-Nirob among 8 BNP men jailed in 2013 arson attack case

DE Online Report
Eight BNP leaders and activists, including BNP joint secretary general Moazzem Hossain Alal and former Juba Dal president Saiful Islam Nirob, have been jailed for three years in a case filed for arson attack on a passenger bus in the city’s Dhanmondi area during BNPand Jamaat-e-islami’s hartal in 2013.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Jasim passed the order under two separate sections on Sunday.
The other six convicts are former Chhatra Dal president Abdul Quader Jewel, Jamaat’s Dhaka city (south) secretary Dr Shafiqul Islam Masud; and BNP leaders Harun Or Rashid, Obaidul Haque, Shahidul Islam Heera and Ibrahim.
The court also fined the eight convicts Tk 10,000, in default, they will have to serve two more months in jail.
According to the case statement, on December 1, 2013, the convicts set a passenger bus on fire on Sat Masjid Road in the capital’s Dhanmondi area.
Later, the then Dhanmondi Police Station SI Abdullah Al Mamun filed a case over the incident.