Former student leader ‘accepts responsibility’ for bus fire



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Former Paltan Deputy General Secretary Thana Chhatra Dal Kazi Rezaul Haque Babu aka Jim Babu (28) made the confession on Saturday.

The joint coordinator of the police platoon Juba Dal Leon Haque (30) and the activist arrested in this case. The court granted Azad (26) a three-day preventive detention for questioning.

On November 12, 11 vehicles were burned in Uttara on the day of the by-elections, one of which was burned in Paltan. Dhaka Metropolitan Detective Police Additional Commissioner AKM Hafeez Akhter said in the morning that the three were arrested on Saturday morning after identifying the incident of burning a car in Paltan after watching CCTV video. .

He told bdnews24.com: “Jim Babu poured gasoline into the car and set another one on fire. There was another activist from Juba Dal named Imtiaz and efforts are being made to arrest him.”

All three were brought before the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrates Court on Saturday. Rezaul Haque Babu, alias Jim Babu, voluntarily agreed to testify at the time and the investigating officer on the case requested to search him. Following the request, the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate, Mamunur Rashid, registered a statement in his office. Later, the judge ordered that he be sent to jail.

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The investigator of the case requested 10 days of preventive detention for the other two defendants León and Azad. After the hearing, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mamunur Rashid granted each of them pretrial detention for three days.

This information is known from the Crime, Information and Prosecution Department of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police.

A total of 18 cases were registered in different police stations in the capital for setting buses on fire in Dhaka. The Motijheel Division of the Detective Police is investigating four cases filed at the Paltan and Motijheel Police Stations.



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